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cybrbeast
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Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees
#5592943 - 05/05/06 04:51 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I haven't found any English news sources yet. Only this German one http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72658 They basically did what the title said.
And then there is also this case running against a British hacker, McKinnon, who got into the Pentagon on 56k modem to look for UFO data.
Oh how secure the Pentagon is, they must be running windows XP or something  Maybe they should hire McKinnon to update their defenses.
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: cybrbeast]
#5593048 - 05/05/06 06:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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well at least we know where the billions of dollars of the Defense Department's budget went...certainly not in spyware security!
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: cybrbeast]
#5593050 - 05/05/06 06:56 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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they know its unsecure in some areas, its designed that way
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: goobler]
#5593058 - 05/05/06 07:00 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Good design, so they lead the hackers away from the really important stuff? Personal data isn't important?
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: cybrbeast]
#5593062 - 05/05/06 07:03 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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people are expendable
and they know when you do it...
plus sometimes its kinda like a job interview of sorts
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: goobler]
#5593066 - 05/05/06 07:09 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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They retrieved credit card numbers, social security numbers, private addresses and telephone numbers of roughly 14,000 Pentagon employees. Considering that the total number of military and civilian employees in Pentagon makes up around 23,000, I bet Donald Rumsfeld's phone number is not among those 14,000. Hint: a lot of janitors.
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: ivi]
#5593132 - 05/05/06 07:56 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
ivi said: They retrieved credit card numbers, social security numbers, private addresses and telephone numbers of roughly 14,000 Pentagon employees. Considering that the total number of military and civilian employees in Pentagon makes up around 23,000, I bet Donald Rumsfeld's phone number is not among those 14,000. Hint: a lot of janitors.
Sad, but still..
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: cybrbeast]
#5593239 - 05/05/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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but I thought that the illegal immigrants that fill all of the janitor jobs don't have SS#'s...
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: dr0mni]
#5756351 - 06/16/06 06:00 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Here's an update on the situation ... Damn , Non-Terrestrial Officers ?!?!?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/th...l?oneclick=true
Hey, this guy really is a pothead 
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Re: Hackers get personal data on 14.000 Pentagon employees [Re: MAIA]
#5756352 - 06/16/06 06:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey thanks man! Also for digging up my thread.
edit: This hacker is not the one who got the personel files on 14000 employees though. But really cool story especially about him finding multiple hackers doing the same thing. Hope he doesn't get a really big sentance.
I can't understand why the US government doesn't use a non-accesible network. Something that's disconnected from the internet, using private encrypted lines.
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Edited by cybrbeast (06/16/06 06:12 AM)
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