Re: [Full-Disclosure] Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate

[Matt Burnett <marukka@mac.com>]

Could this be the start of Water Gate 2?

On 1/22/04 11:24 AM, "Richard M. Smith" <rms@computerbytesman.com> wrote:

> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_
> seen_as_extensive?mode=PF
> 
> Infiltration of files seen as extensive
> Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats
> By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004
> 
> WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee
> infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy
> memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told
> The Globe.
> 
> From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP
> committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access
> restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through
> hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of
> private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight --
> and with what tactics.
> 
> The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an
> investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the
> pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website
> last November.
> 
> With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US
> Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and
> seized more than half a dozen computers -- including four Judiciary servers,
> one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of
> Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives.
> 
> ...
> 
> 
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