Posted on 07/21/2004 2:31:57 PM PDT by HAL9000
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A Florida man has been charged with stealing large amounts of consumer information from Acxiom Corp., one of the world's largest database companies.The new indictment comes on the heels of a separate case last year in which an Ohio man pleaded guilty to hacking into an Acxiom server. Acxiom manages personal information on millions of consumers, along with financial and other internal data for companies.
The new case, against Scott Levine, 45, represents "what may be the largest cases of intrusion of personal data to date," U.S. Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray said Wednesday at a news conference in Washington.
Prosecutors said the stolen data included personal information about "a great number of individuals," but they added that the information wasn't used for identity fraud.
Levine ran Snipermail.com Inc., which distributed ads over e-mail. Prosecutors said Levine and other Snipermail employees got into Acxiom's server to take 8.2 gigabytes of consumer files in 2002 and 2003.
A telephone number believed to be Levine's was no longer in service. He was indicted on 144 counts, including unauthorized access of a protected computer, conspiracy, access device fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
A phone call seeking comment by Little Rock-based Acxiom was not immediately returned.
This case arose from the one last year in which Daniel Baas of Milford, Ohio, pleaded guilty to hacking into Acxiom. During follow-up investigations, the company detected a second set of intrusions, coming from a different Internet protocol address, which was traced to Levine, prosecutors said.
I’m sure that Acxiom will alert all of the consumers whose information was compromised.
I'll bet Acxiom is a Microsoft shop.
If they're handling that much data in a real-time system, it's unlikely they're a Microsoft shop :).
you SURE about that?
Next you'll want me to believe that
Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer . . . de Sade
is the tooth fairy and Mother Mary all rolled into one beautiful package.
Almost gags my finger to type that even in satire!
Yeah, just WHO gave Acxiom the right to garner private info on us?!!!Seems like it's illegal to everybody BUT them, and of course ChoicePoint.
Right. And I bet it would take a literal act of Congress for us to be able to see our data in their files.
God have mercy on our suicidal nation.
Could somebody give me an updated press email/fax list. Mine is prolly to old to use. I plan on alerting press of all genres to this travesty of justice!!
I think Congress had hearings about this stuff a couple of weeks ago, and talked about legislation to require notification to everyone whose records were stolen.
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