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Subject: [ISN] Hackers May Have Hit 265,000 State Workers
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Date: 2002-05-28 8:36:27
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Hackers may have hit 265,000 state workers
By Sam Stanton -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 1:37 p.m. PDT Friday, May 24, 2002
Computer hackers gained access to the California state government's
computer systems in April and sensitive financial and personal
information about as many as 265,000 state workers, officials said
Friday.
The electronic assault on payroll and other records was discovered by
the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force, which determined that none
of the information has been used illegally so far.
Despite that, agents with the task force, which includes the
Sacramento Sheriff's Department and the FBI, have launched an
investigation into the security breach and are searching for the
hackers, The Bee has learned.
Sources said the hacking involved the state's Stephen P. Teale Data
Center, which is based in Rancho Cordova and provides technical
computer assistance to many state departments. Authorities also
believe the state Department of Education computer system may have
been accessed illegally.
The security breaches have gone on for the past several months,
officials said, and gave the hackers access to Social Security
numbers, last names and first and middle initials of 265,000 state
workers ranging from judges and politicians to clerical workers.
However, authorities said there was no indication yet that the
information had been used by the hackers.
Despite that, authorities said there is grave concern over the ease
with which the hackers entered the computer systems, and that work by
the task force found that few of the security procedures that are
supposed to be in place actually are used.
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