You are exposed ???

[Gene C]

watch the butterfly as it spreads your info to the world.
now with this info even the moneyless can have a great x-mas.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/849290.asp?0si=-&cp1=1
I have seen a lot of this happen to users. and it will get worse, until these sites understand the meaning of security and Nothing is safe.

[Roadkill]

Wow! Now thats frightening!

[Biff]

Yikes, that is one hell of a lot of credit card transactions and such for hackers to scoop. Doesn't sound good at all.

[Gene C]

sine this list is read from users all over the world. if you used this travel company? you might want to check it out. I can't post where I got this info from. so don't ask!!

A hacker who broke into the IT systems of leading travel operators and programmed their systems to issue more than £100,000 in fraudulent credit card refunds, may have had access to lists of passwords kept by the travel firms' software supplier.

Anite Travel, which supplied ferry booking software to the companies that were hacked, is investigating the theory that current or former members of staff may have passed copies of the password list to the hacker, who appears to have been acting on inside information.

About 70 or 80 IT and technical staff in Anite Travel would have had access to an unencrypted file containing details of the passwords and the phone numbers used to access their systems.

"Anyone can copy a single file from an unprotected network share and have all the customer modem numbers and access passwords. An unhappy worker could mail this out," said one source.

One theory is that the lists could have been sent out by a current or former member of staff using an Internet chat service.

The disclosure has highlighted concerns about poor security in the travel industry, which relies on systems and technologies long since abandoned by other sectors of the economy.

"The password list is obviously very important to their customers. One would have thought it would not be on a network at all and it would be in encrypted form," said Peter Sommer, a security expert.

The hacker used software from the Internet,

[smokin]

Doesn't really give you a warm fuzzy feeling does it?
I guess you're never really safe when an unhappy employee
gets in the mix
:(

[Mntsnow]

I guess you're never really safe when an unhappy employee gets in the mix

isn't that the truth! :(

[Gene C]

or one hopeing to get rich!!

A former sysadmin with UBS PaineWebber was indicted yesterday on federal charges of trying to manipulate the stock price of the brokerage's parent company by crippling its computer network.

Roger Duronio, 60, allegedly sent a logic bomb to over 1,000 PCs used by Painewebber brokers in hopes of disrupting operations to such an extent that the stock price of parent company UBS fell.
He invested more than $21,000 in put options and stood to make a fortune if UBS share price fell dramatically, prosecutors allege.

In the event, the effects of the logic bombs were severe (Painewebber claims it cost $3 million to clean up the damage) but didn't materially affect the broker's business, and certainly not UBS' stock price.

Suspicion for the attacks quickly fell on Duronio, a computer systems administrator, who resigned from PaineWebber on February 22 this year - just days before the March 4 - complaining about his wages and bonuses.

Duronio was charged and yesterday indicted for securities fraud and computer related fraud offences by a New Jersey court. He denies the charges.

If convicted of the offences he faces up to 20 years in prison and fines in excess of $1.25 million, Reuters reports.