Union: Hacker broke into FAA computers-Accessed the names, national ID numbers of 45,000 employees a

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC/AP

Hackers broke into the Federal Aviation Administration's computer system last week, accessing the names and national identification numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees, a union leader says.

Tom Waters, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3290, said FAA officials briefed union leaders Monday about the security breach.

FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown confirmed the agency's computers were hacked last week.

Waters said union leaders were told hackers gained access to two files. One file had the names and Social Security numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees on the FAA's rolls as of February 2006. Social Security is the U.S. government-directed pension system, and in the absence of a national identity card, other people's social security numbers can be used to steal identities for illicit purposes.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29108758/

[midnight]

1. I'm getting so tired of criminals stealing our private information.

It has happened with regular success over the last eight years. Last week our bank let us know our information was compromised.

[defendandprotect]

2. Computers shouldn't be used for anything important . . . !!!

Like voting or holding personal info and certainly not credit card into or

SS numbers!

And not medical data, either!!!

Computers/internet are good for playing games, gossip, rumor and for political

discussions/debate and political action --- that's all!!!

[rainbow4321]

3. My hospital announced today that 9300 employees info may have been stolen

When a LAPTOP was stolen at the hospital. Of course, they wait 6 days to tell us this....ya think someone could put in a GPS system into a laptop so it could be found when stolen

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/021009dnmetparkland.3574199.html

A laptop computer that may have contained the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of 9,300 employees of Parkland Memorial Hospital was stolen last week, hospital officials acknowledged Monday.

The laptop, valued at $1,862 and stolen Feb. 3, contained no information related to Parkland patients, the officials stressed. And while it was not certain that employee information was on the laptop, the hospital decided to take extra precautions anyway.

Employees were notified of the theft Monday by hospital e-mail and advised to monitor their credit profiles or place fraud alerts on their accounts. Workers also were invited to enroll in a free, one-year online credit monitoring service that would detect fraudulent activities.

Officials declined to describe how the theft occurred but said earlier notification would have impeded the investigation by hospital district police. So far, no evidence of fraudulent activity has been linked to the theft.

[diane in sf]

4. More TIA info for Cheney's shadow government?

[tom_paine]

5. We have a WINNER!

Notice how the data thefts are on taraget groups that both Bushies and Nazis need to keep tabs on.

Unions and veterans to name two.

Unions, for obvious reasons that haven't changd much since the Nazis. The massive veterans data thefts, now undoubtedly integrated into the TIA system, are a place where ythe Bushie learn from their Nazis pals' mistakes.

Allow me to explain, history has shown what a terrible mistake (from the Bushie-Nazi perspective) the German Bushies of the 1930s made in implicitly trusting veterans just bcause they were veterans.

In this case, the nazis made the mistake of believing their own propaganda, and the Bushies have decided not to make the same mistake.

Because German Veterans hurt the Nazis. In one case, a German Jew, Victor Klemperer, because in part of his decorated service to the Reich in WWI, was allowed to survive WWII WHILE LIVING IN GERMANY THE WHOLE TIME.

Honest. Not only that, but sloppy, by Rivian Standards, Nazis let him hide and later publish his personal memoirs of the Nazis, which made it more difficult for the Nazis to escape to and ciontinue their struggle against Liberalism with their Greatest American Allies, the Bushies.

NOW, with Total Information Awareness, the Bushies will KNOW which veterans are "Jews" and will have no delay in dealing with people they have identified as being dangerously attached to the liberal ideas of liberty, justice and the American Constitution.

The Bushies are determined to be more throrough and do a better jobthan the Nazis, though they are hamstrung a bit by the fact that, for the moment, the Nazis have discouraged the industrialized slaughter of peoples based on their ideals, but the Bushigandists ae working to eradicate these foolish liberal social mores that get the in the way of the Great Glory of the Bushpublican Empire.

And yes, I know Obama got elected, but the "Stimuls Debate", a 100% total exercise in Bushie "soft power" media control, has shown me that, in spite of the fact that the Bushies have to lie low for a bit, that they'll be back like they neer left off.

One or two more cycles of this, probably no more than 20-25 years, and we will begin to see the Outline of the Bushie Final Solution to the Liberal Problem.

I'll give you a hint about the one thing I KNOW for 100% certain about what the Bushie Final Solution to the Liberal Problem is It will NOT look exactly like what the Nazis did. No industrialized slaughter, no train cars with hideous victims packed in like cattle, etc.

Why? Because THAT would be bad marketing and rebranding strategy onthe Bushies' part, and the Bushies are VERY GOOD at marketing.

Maybe instead of cattle cars, transporting the victims in Yellow School Buses will give the Bushies the tiny amount of Plausible Deniability they require for successful rebranding of the Nazi Cause into Modern Bushevism/Authoritarianism.

Yes. It works. And the yellow school busses will play happy kiddie music to drown out any of the transport passengers' screams or pounding onthe window as they drive through HAPPY NEIGHBORHOODS.

I do believe I might be on to something. If you see lots of schoolbusses blaring happy music in 30 years, running at odd hours though the neighborhood, that seem to be filled with something other than schoolchildren, but you can't quite tell because the din of the calliope music coming from the bus makes it hard to think and it's hard to see who's inside...then it might behoove you o remember this post all these years ago.

"Leichentrager Zur Wache..."

"corpse-carriers to the guardhouse"

[libnnc]

6. Grrrrreat....

just one MORE thing to worry about in this household

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