IP: Egghead scrambles to gauge damage - bad scene

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Egghead scrambles to gauge damage

An intruder may have poached the online electronics and computer retailer's 
database of 3.7 million customers, including credit card information. The 
FBI and security experts are on the case.


By Robert Lemos and Ben Charny, ZDNet News
December 22, 2000 12:37 PM PT

Egghead.com scrambled on Friday to gauge how much of its 
3.7-million-customer database had been stolen by intruders during an online 
theft, which experts believed happened the day before.

"We're in continuous crisis mode here," said a consultant from physical and 
electronic security firm Kroll Worldwide--the experts called in when 
Egghead discovered the intrusion on Thursday. The consultant asked not to 
be named.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2668562,00.html



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