Interesting. This sounds like the Lexis/Nexis case where someone got illicit access to a law enforcement privileged account to the service by backdooring the computer thus essentially getting access to a huge amount of data unchecked.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Walsh</b> <<a href="mailto:cwalsh@cwalsh.org">cwalsh@cwalsh.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Report: Lenders illicitly accessing student database<br>Published: 2007-04-16<br><br>A database containing the personal and financial details of nearly 60 million students had repeatedly been accessed by some lending companies in ways the violated federal privacy laws, the Washington Post reported on Sunday
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