When Hax0rs Strike!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
Date: May 7, 2009 1:20:46 PM EDT
To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com 
>, David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: When Hax0rs Strike!

Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom

By Brian Krebs

Washington Post
May 4, 2009

Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by
pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on
more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a
ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records,
according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for
leaked documents.

Wikileaks reports that the Web site for the Virginia Prescription
Monitoring Program was defaced last week with a message claiming that
the database of prescriptions had been bundled into an encrypted,
password-protected file.

...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/hackers_break_into_virginia_he.html

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Over_8M_Virginian_patient_records_held_to_ransom,_30_Apr_2009

--
The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be  
against the privileges of the underprivileged. H. L. Mencken





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