one more: Lexis-Nexis compromise

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:12:38 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: one more: Lexis-Nexis compromise

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66842,00.html

Hackers Nab U.S. Citizens' Data

Associated Press 

09:41 AM Mar. 09, 2005 PT

NEW YORK -- Using misappropriated passwords and identifications from
legitimate 
customers, hackers got access to personal information on as many as 32,000
U.S. 
citizens in a database owned by LexisNexis, the company's corporate parent
said 
Wednesday. 
[...]


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