9 Jan
2003
9 Jan
'03
1 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, David Lesher wrote: > Don't recall if NANOG mentioned it, but mid-December someone broke > into a DOD-contractor HMO's server farm; and stole all the drives. > It was clearly an organized identity theft. They got 500,000 > names, medical records and SSNs. Repeat, for those who didn't get the import of that: They took the _medical records_ of _half a million_ US _soldiers_ and their families. Regardless of the identity-theft aspect, it's hard to imagine them not seeing a lucrative aftermarket for that batch of data. -Bill