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Re: Trends in network operator security
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:00:46 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, David Lesher wrote: > Don't recall if NANOG mentioned it, but mid-December someone broke > into a DOD-contractor HMO's server farm; and stole all the drives. > It was clearly an organized identity theft. They got 500,000 > names, medical records and SSNs. Repeat, for those who didn't get the import of that: They took the _medical records_ of _half a million_ US _soldiers_ and their families. Regardless of the identity-theft aspect, it's hard to imagine them not seeing a lucrative aftermarket for that batch of data. -Bill
Current thread:
- Trends in network operator security Sean Donelan (Jan 08)
- Re: Trends in network operator security batz (Jan 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Trends in network operator security Sean Donelan (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security David Lesher (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security Bill Woodcock (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security Richard Irving (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security David Lesher (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security Pete Kruckenberg (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security Sean Donelan (Jan 09)
- Re: Trends in network operator security Christopher L. Morrow (Jan 09)