California reports massive data breach

California reports massive data breach
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-10-19

The FBI is investigating the penetration of a university research system that housed sensitive personal data on a staggering 1.4 million Californians who participated in a state social program, officials said Tuesday.

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California reports massive data breach 2004-10-20
SeabH

"Known vulnerabilities" 2004-10-20
Obviously not known by them

WIndows? Linux? Unix? (maybe Minux)? What OS? 2004-10-20
Anonymous (3 replies)

WIndows? Linux? Unix? (maybe Minux)? What OS? 2004-10-21
SeabH (1 replies)

WIndows? Linux? Unix? (maybe Minux)? What OS? 2004-10-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

WIndows? Linux? Unix? (maybe Minux)? What OS? 2004-10-24
Anonymous

WIndows? Linux? Unix? (maybe Minux)? What OS? 2004-10-26
Anonymous

California reports massive data breach 2004-10-21
Anonymous

Cryptography Ignored? 2004-10-23
Drew Miller (1 replies)

How very interesting this is. Encrypting data would at least have protected some of the data, forcing the criminals to independantly brute force each of the pieces of data... oops on their part.

Did the criminal get away with names, numbers and addresses?

Or did the criminal get away with encrypted names, numbers and addresses?

Since they didn't specify, I spose we have to assume that they were not encrypted.

An unfortunate occurance. What happens if a credit bureau is hacked someday?

*sigh*

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Cryptography Ignored? 2004-10-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

Cryptography Ignored? 2004-10-27
Drew Miller

Its a University! 2004-10-27
Anonymous

California reports massive data breach 2004-11-01
Anonymous