IP: two from Edupage == Starwave and year 2k

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

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SECURITY BREACH SHUTS DOWN ONLINE SPORTS STORES
The online stores at the popular ESPN SportsZone and NBA.com Web 
sites were
shut down after an anonymous person sent e-mail to hundreds of 
shoppers
who'd made purchases at the stores, saying he'd acquired their credit 
card
information from parent company Starwave's computer systems and 
including
their credit card number to prove it.  Starwave says it's beefed up 
its
security now, and the ESPN SportZone store is already back up and 
running.
NBA.com is expected to be back online next week.  "We've changed the 
system
and now it's a much more painful process for us to fill orders, but 
it was
to make sure it was secure for our customers," says a Starwave 
spokeswoman.
"You can be sure that we are doing everything possible to prevent it 
from
happening again."  (InfoWorld Electric 11 Jul 97)


YEAR 2000 LITIGATION COULD TOP $1 TRILLION
With the total cost of fixing the Year 2000 software problems still 
sinking
in, here's something else to worry about:  The New York law firm of 
LeBoeuf,
Lamb, Greene & MacRae predicts companies that neglect to become Year
2000-compliant will be sued for poor management and malpractice, 
resulting
in total litigation costs exceeding $1 trillion.  (Information Week 
30 Jun 97)
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