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One question: If the FBI knew of additional hacks that could expose things such as customer credit card numbers, should they have intervened? Did they intervene
by gavinlynch 15y ago
One question: If the FBI knew of additional hacks that could expose things such as customer credit card numbers, should they have intervened? Did they intervene?
- hack_edu 15y agoIf they were involved an operation to export thousands of guns to Mexican drug gangs[1], surely killing hundreds in the process, then yes. If they knew, they probably wouldn't intervene. Even still, few (any?) Lulzsec attacks actually leaked unencrypted credit card data. Even then, the damage done by exposing credit cards is pretty negligible anyway. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
- gavinlynch 15y agoForgive me if this information is not correct, but wasn't their latest attack of Stratfor exactly such a hack? I recall that Stratfor kept a lot of customer information in plaintext, including CC's.