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Military and Government E-mails Compromised

Posted by Soulskill on from the neverending-story dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that 16,959 e-mail accounts were recently exposed by Connexion Hack Team. Included in the data dump are usernames and passwords for military and government accounts. The other compromised accounts included addresses from GMail, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL." Reader Stoobalou adds a report that NATO's servers have been hit for the second time in as many months.

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  1. Air Gap? by Gothmolly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has nobody in government security ever heard of an air gap? WHY would you ever attach military gear to the public Internet?

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