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Hackers get into Wickliffe computer
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:55:12 -0500 (EST)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17599558&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=6 Wickliffe Mayor Thomas W. Ruffner announced Friday that hackers had breached security in one of the city's three computer servers, which held personal information on some city employees. The breach was discovered by Building Commissioner Ray Sack, who brought it to the attention of Ruffner and city police. Detective Sgt. Joe Matteo said a malicious virus had gotten through at least two layers of security and into the system, where information on 125 city employees was stored. No information on city residents was stored in the server or compromised, Ruffner said. Those affected included service department and part-time personnel whose names and Social Security numbers were in the system. Employees affected by the breach will be notified today in a letter from the mayor advising them of potential problems involving identity or credit theft, although no reports of either had been reported as of Friday. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 507 incidents over 6 years.
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