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Consumer Database Company Hacked Again

Posted by michael on from the don't-worry-be-happy dept.

x-guru writes "CNN is reporting on the indictment of a Florida man on 144 identity theft charges including fraud, money-laundering, and obstruction of justice. Approximately 8.2 GB of data was stolen from Acxiom Corp, a company responsible for the storage of vast amounts of personal, financial and corporate data. It looks to be an inside job as six Acxiom employees have agreed to cooperate with the investigation." Acxiom was hacked last year as well.

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  1. Who the hell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Works for these companies? They're probably running Windows. This guy probably didn't even need to "hack in." I've worked in IT since '94 (since I was old enough to work, basically) and I've noticed a resistance by management to go with something that seems so "esoteric" to a non-IT person. That would be Linux, FreeBSD, etc. I mean, obviously we're all techies here, and these news stories probably strike you the same way they strike me. Like DieBold and their MS-Access database. Who the hell... Two things we need to work on:

    1. Removing the 'esoteric' nature of open source. Right now it's greek to most people.
    2. Become an expert in the Microsoft technologies, and then always recommend against them. (So they take you seriously, since all they know is "MCSE," MCDBA")
    3. Routinely discredit your coworkers who know only the Good Word of Microsoft. Also, ask for a decent raise when you routinely save your company thousands of dollars and prevent the headache of MS--Remind them when that big bad Outlook virus hits most of the world. "No sir, we're not affected."

    Just my two meandering thoughts...