+----[ Curtis Maloney ]---------------------------------------------
| On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| > Just to make those people who think "It will never happen to me" think
| > twice, the Australian Government Treasury site was hacked and lots of
| > banking details about lots of small businesses was released.
| >
| > The Australian Treasury was very happy with their security too. Until
| > yesterday.
|
| Whilst I agree that "It will never happen to me" is a stupid stance, the ATO
| web site was not 'hacked'. As an example, the Federal Police and the
| government are NOT doing anything to the person.
Last night I heard they were still looking for him. Of course ringing
JJJ first wasn't exactly a smart idea.
| What happened was somebody noticed that a number in the URL for a page of
| their details matched their ID number, and tried some others. Upon finding
| they worked, he wrote a script to try numbers, munge the page, and e-mail
| people their details.
And the site is down 'indefinitely'.
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