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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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WIndows? Linux? Unix? (maybe Minux)? What OS? 2004-10-20
Anonymous
The article fails to say what OS was the problem from the start?

Does anyone know?

Systems like these should, by law, be not hooked up to an external network. Not ever!

The government should create a law that would make putting a system like this on a network that was facing the internet a cr...

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