[54584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trends in network operator security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Jan 9 13:07:47 2003
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:00:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200301091546.KAA26344@sigma.nrk.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, David Lesher wrote:
> Don't recall if NANOG mentioned it, but mid-December someone broke
> into a DOD-contractor HMO's server farm; and stole all the drives.
> It was clearly an organized identity theft. They got 500,000
> names, medical records and SSNs.
Repeat, for those who didn't get the import of that:
They took the _medical records_ of _half a million_ US _soldiers_ and
their families.
Regardless of the identity-theft aspect, it's hard to imagine them not
seeing a lucrative aftermarket for that batch of data.
-Bill
