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Re: Hackers Get Data of U.S. Federal Lab Visitors
From: scott <redhowlingwolves () bellsouth net>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:54:11 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Planetlabs anyone? Paul Ferguson wrote:
Via The Daily News. [snip] he Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed on Thursday that a "sophisticated cyber attack" over the last few weeks may have allowed personal information about thousands of lab visitors to be stolen. The assault appeared "to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country," lab director Thom Mason said in a memo to the 4,200 employees at the Department of Energy facility. Oak Ridge officials would not identify the other institutions affected by the breach. But they said hackers may have infiltrated a database of names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of every lab visitor between 1990 and 2004. [snip] More: http://www.tdn.com/articles/2007/12/06/ap/hitech/d8tc7k582.txt - ferg
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