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RE: BofA Stuff


From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:14:28 GMT

Sounds like the details are still coming to light....

- ferg


-- "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com> wrote:

So basically one of the big office-supply retails was broken
into...perhaps their whole DB and close to 200,000 people were exposed.
Not by some backup tape, or a street thief looking to steal laptop but
by a real hacker...that targeted the information, therefore increasing
the real threat to customers in a very very big way.

But the retailer doesn't tell anyone...at all (which will be a problem
if they have stores in Cali).

Am I right?

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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