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Acxiom Hacking Details Made Public

Posted by michael on from the may-not-need-new-credit-cards-after-all dept.

pgrote writes "As mentioned previously, the Acxiom consumer database company was compromised. More details have emerged including the background of the alleged hacker and the method used to gather access. It turns out he had access since December of 2002 and came in through an unsecured FTP server. The suspect was not a former employee of Acxiom as previously reported, but an employee of data mining company."

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  1. Disturbing by Bruha · · Score: 5, Informative

    This more or less shows the fact that many companies have group passwords to their critical equipment instead of inplementing a choke system to allow users to login into it to show them where they can go and cant go.

    Since they probably dumped the company involved and not changed any of those passwords then this guy was allowed to basically walk around at will inside the databases.

    Such lax security in itself should also be criminal especially when it concerns consumer data and financial information of consumers.