Chats led to Acxiom hacker bust

Chats led to Acxiom hacker bust
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-12-19

A Cincinnati man who plead guilty Thursday to cracking and cloning giant consumer databases was only caught because he helped out a friend in the hacker community.

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Alu

Acxiom claimed $1.3 million in security audits and encryption upgrades after the bust. This is something they should have done BEFORE security was compromised. The root password on the ftp server was sitting in a world-readable file. There's no excuse for that.

And as for the $200,000 in travel expenses.. I doubt they were riding Coach.

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