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Advertiser Charged in Massive Database Theft
Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post 2004-07-22

Federal authorities yesterday charged an online advertiser in Florida with tapping into the computer system of a large database marketer in Arkansas and stealing "vast amounts of personal information" about Americans in what they described as one of the largest network intrusions in recent memory.

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Advertiser Charged in Massive Database Theft 2004-07-22
Anonymous (1 replies)
Kind of creepy how all this information about so many people is in the hands of one company....

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Advertiser Charged in Massive Database Theft 2004-07-23
Anonymous
who can't hang on to it...

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Advertiser Charged in Massive Database Theft 2004-07-23
Anonymous
Just curious, is this guy in jail yet? The first Acxiom hacker was indicted on one charge of hacking Acxiom and he's been sitting in jail since late August waiting to be sentenced. ...

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Advertiser Charged in Massive Database Theft 2004-07-23
Anonymous
What if someone were to incur personal damages due to their private information being leaked. Who is to blame? Acxoim, for poor computer security......

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