http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/25/heroin-hacker-steals By Nick Farrell The Inquirer 25 November 2008 AMERICAN COMPANY Luxottica Retail, the former owner of the Things Remembered stores seemed to have forgotten to have the right amount of security on the company mainframe. The red-faced retailer has admitted that more than 59,000 of its former workers could be affected after a huge security breach. A routine check by the information technology department discovered that a hacker had been inside a computer mainframe and downloaded the personal information of more than 59,000 former workers. The victims are all over the US and will have lost names, addresses and Social Security numbers to the hacker. However the cyber-raider cannot have been all that clued up either. Investigators were allegedly able to trace the hacker’s IP address to one Molly Burns. The 30-year-old has a five-page long arrest record that includes theft, forgery and drug charges. [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Wed Nov 26 2008 - 02:17:16 PST
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