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California Hax0red

Posted by michael on from the san-andreas-fault dept.

rochlin writes "200,000 California state workers burned! According to the Sacramento Bee, personal and financial info for 200,000 workers was accessed by a team of hackers "working secretly over the past several months." Stolen info included "the perfect mix of information to allow identity theft" according to the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force."

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  1. Re:Oh dear.. by numbuscus · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's really scary is that you are liable for any debt the hackers rack up on you, unless you catch them quick.

    I guarantee the credit card companies won't want to pay for this - us citizens are about to get f*cked two ways - one from the hackers and once from the legal system. Doesn't it feel great to live in a modern society?

    Start checking you credit rating...

  2. Re:Unbreakable by Heironymus+Coward · · Score: 4, Informative
    This info wouldn't have been stolen from an "unbreakable" Oracle database that Cali payed so much for would it?

    probably not... unless things have changed drastically since I left stat service, the Teale Data Center did not use Oracle. it was some custom (read: out-of-date) database running on VMS. the Oracle database was for state clients -- in other words, citzens, licensees, businesses. it ran on Solaris.

    I'm a little disappointed in the amount of information in the article. as I just mentioned, I used to work for the state. was any information on former employees compromised? they don't say. and probably won't answer if asked.

  3. Re:Unbreakable by big_hairy_mama · · Score: 3, Informative

    They were actually in the system for months. So not only was it easy to get in, but they remained undetected for all that time.