[iwar] [fc:Hackers.Break.Into.California.Computers]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Hackers.Break.Into.California.Computers]
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Hackers Break Into California Computers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 10:48 p.m. ET 24 May 2002

SACRAMENTO, Calif.  (AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a computer
system that contains personal financial information of 260,000 state
workers, including top officials, authorities said Friday. 

The system contains payroll deduction information, including last names,
first names, middle initials, Social Security numbers and possibly bank
details. 

The information covers employees from all ranks, even Gov.  Gray Davis
and his staff. 

``The governor is a potential victim in this because he is one of those
state employees,'' said Sacramento County Sheriff Lou Blanas. 

It had not yet been determined if the hackers used the information for
any purposes, including identity theft. 

``There is nothing to show at this point that anything was taken out of
the system; it was only hacked into the system,'' Blanas said. 

The breach of the state database occurred April 5, an investigation
determined.  State Controller Kathleen Connell said her office -- which
administers payroll -- noticed during a routine security check May 7
that the server had been penetrated. 

She said she contacted the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force, a
multi-agency task force that is a division of the Sacramento County
Sheriff's Office. 

Connell said the data operations manager assured her the system had been
patched as of Friday afternoon. 


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