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Five Men Arrested in LexisNexis Data Theft
An anonymous reader writes "Five men aged 19-24 were arrested last week in connection with the reported theft last year of some 310,000 personal records from database giant LexisNexis. The Washington Post reports that some of the individuals were also involved in the theft and online posting of revealing photos from socialite Paris Hilton's cell phone. All are being charged with 'aggravated identity theft,' which carries a mandatory 2-year jail sentence for those found guilty."
Two wrongs don't make a right. (Now, two Wrights can make an airplane, but that's another story.)
But according to interviews washingtonpost.com had with at least three of the accused, the group accessed information on Hilton, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)
Why has he trademarked his name?
...when hacking into a computer system automatically got you a job working for the company you hacked into?
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it should be 310000/5 * (1-2 years) = 31000-62000 years each
The funny part is, Lexis-Nexis bought Seisint to get their hands on Hank Asher's whizbang technology. Seems they had an IT department in Dayton full of old fuddy-duddies who insisted on running lexis-nexis on those creepy old IBM mainframes. You know, the ones that had never been hacked.