IP: Major online credit card theft exposed (fm ZD-Net)

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "John Lyon" <jelyon () jelyon com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
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>
> May be of interest to IPers. Article notes that "The heist occurred in
> January 1999."
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> Entire article online at:
>   http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2469820,00.html
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> Major online credit card theft exposed
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> Hacker hid data on 485,000 cards on U.S. agency's Web site.
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> By Mike Brunker, MSNBC
> March 17, 2000 5:06 AM PT
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> In the largest known case of cybertheft, a computer intruder stole
> information on more than 485,000 credit cards from an e-commerce site and
> then secretly stored the massive database on a U.S. government agency's Web
> site, MSNBC has learned. Credit card companies notified financial
> institutions, but many of the compromised accounts remain open to this day
> because the banks neither closed them nor notified customers of the theft.