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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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Chats led to Acxiom hacker bust 2003-12-23
Anonymous
"At some point, while poking around on that server, he found an unprotected file containing encrypted passwords."

And Acxiom avoids all responsibility? This information should have been locked away in a safe heavily encrypted. Not left on an internal FTP server available to contractors and employ...

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