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Consumer Database Company Hacked Again
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.
Where exactly is $7 million coming from? Is there data worth about a million a gig?
Wow, I must have billions of dollars worth of pr0n then!
They are the ones that decided to use IIS as their webserver, so it's an inside job.
Some days I wish someone would take my identity.
www.kitchengeek.com -- Nosh for
I swear, reading Slashdot is starting to sound like those scrolling news blurbs in Uplink.
Company X reports that N gigs of customer information were stolen by an unidentified hacker.
Company Y reports that N gigs of project data was deleted by an unidentified hacker.
etc., etc., etc.
Thankfully, it was in Microsoft Word format, so only three people were compromised, despite the >8GB of data.
Whenever any of these companies call to verify information, I put them on hold and take care of any possible task that might be more important (which is just about anything). By the time I get back to their call, they've always hung up. Bummer.