I've never seen such an ICH408I message. In our shop, z/OS 1.12, I do see:

ICH408I USER(USH360  ) GROUP(USHG    ) NAME(MELANIE A RUST      ) 419
  LOGON/JOB INITIATION - INVALID PASSWORD ENTERED AT TERMINAL D08VDTW3

So I guess this could be used by a person to correlate names and userids in 
order to do a "Denial Of Service" attack on an "enemy" by attempting to logon 
to the system with an invalid password. Or even, perhaps, to try to get names 
in order to do a "social engineering" type attack.

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> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: z/OS SYSLOG - why not let everybody read?
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> W dniu 2012-09-18 15:30, McKown, John pisze:
> > Well, that's the general question. Is there any reason why the
> > "average joe", regardless of job function, should *NOT* have the
> > ability to look at SYSLOG? Does anybody put "sensitive" data out to
> > it?
> 
> Security by obscurity?
> 
> 
> 
> BTW: ICH408I may contain sensitive data, user passwords in clear text.
> 
> How-to:
> User JSMITH pass ABCD1234
> Logon APPLID=CICS1
> userID: ABCD1234
> pass: *****
> 
> ;-)
> 
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