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About those 100,000 credit card numbers in San Diego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Wed May 28 19:14:31 1997
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:15:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199705211415.KAA06353@cia>
There's a Boston Globe article on-line at:
http://nytsyn.com:80/live/Latest_columns/146_052697_110011_32072.html
It says the bad guy. a college student from San Francisco, snarfed the
numbers by installing his program on a computer used to host on-line commerce
sites. They use the phrase "packet sniffer" but it sure sounds like a trojan
horse to me.
Still doesn't say who the ISP was, but people tell me it's not CERFnet. It
could be any of several web farms in San Diego.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
