Telstra Bigpond Hacked....

Several hundred (and suggested many THOUSAND) telstra bigpond account names and passwords have been released as a result of telstra being "hacked".

Stories are emerging, including posts to numerous "system administrator" mailing lists, of lare numbers of
accounts being compromised. Some of the early reports to emerge are:
http://www.core.org.au/article.php?sid=863
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/361

New articles:
Telstra accused of playing down hacker theft
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/07/23/FFX5URDPFPC.html

Hacker finds passwords to give BigPond a fright
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/23/national/national14.html

Bigpond users warned to change passwords
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2410565%255E2,00.html


(Published on 23-Jul-2001 09:30 by RossW, read 806 times)
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