[IP] Hacker gets Acxiom customer information (Caryn Rousseau)Risks Digest 22.84

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:20:18 -0400
> From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
> Subject: Hacker gets Acxiom customer information (Caryn Rousseau)
>
> By Caryn Rousseau, Associated Press, 7 Aug 2003
>
> A computer hacker gained access to private files at Acxiom Corp., one of the
> world's largest consumer database companies, and was able to download
> sensitive information about some customers of the company's clients, the
> company said Thursday.  "The data on the servers was a wide variety of
> information, some of which was personal, some of which was not," Jennifer
> Barrett, the company's chief privacy officer, said in an interview with The
> Associated Press on Thursday. The AP was notified of the intrusion by an
> anonymous caller who would not identify himself or his connection with the
> company.  Barrett said the company did not know about the breach until a law
> enforcement agency from Ohio contacted it last week.  Barrett said both the
> hacker and the stolen information are in police custody. She said about 10
> percent of the company's customers were affected and that, "it would include
> some of our larger customers."  ...
>   http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=35190673

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