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Heroin hacker steals information on 59,000 workers
AMERICAN COMPANY Luxottica Retail, the former owner of the Things Remembered stores seemed to have forgotten to have the right amount of security on the company mainframe.
The red-faced retailer has admitted that more than 59,000 of its former workers could be affected after a huge security breach.
A routine check by the information technology department discovered that a hacker had been inside a computer mainframe and downloaded the personal information of more than 59,000 former workers.
The victims are all over the US and will have lost names, addresses and Social Security numbers to the hacker.
However the cyber-raider cannot have been all that clued up either. Investigators were allegedly able to trace the hacker’s IP address to one Molly Burns.
The 30-year-old has a five-page long arrest record that includes theft, forgery and drug charges.
Inspector Knacker of the Arizona Yard swooped on her apartment during a heroin raid earlier this year and already has a number of her computers at the station.
Investigators are now waiting on the results of a forensics examination of the computers in the hope of finding some of the Luxotta files.
Burns apparently didn’t hang around to answer copper's questions. She has apparently legged it.
Three different police departments in Arizona are also looking for her so her hacking exploits will be only one of many things coppers want a word with her about.
Meanwhile the company sent letters to all the former employees letting them know what happened.
Apparently Luxottica Retail has improved its computer security so that a hacker who is such a novice they don’t think to hide their own IP address can't break down the door.
That's the problem with heroin... it does cloud your judgement a bit. µ
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.... of course if you have a "mainframe", supposing you own Big Glue's z/Series, you really should customise RACF (or whatever you're using) to perform security.... 

Damn italians (luxottica are italian), they're so lazy thecy cannot even use a mainframe properly! (pun allowed... i'm italian too).

... if you cannot rely on a mainframe, you can rely on what else? Nespresso?

i don't think there was heroin involved, they just used that to get a look at her computers, they do it all the time
Imagine they still get "The Unsinkable Molly Burns", after all this time... What the Titantic couldn't do, the Luxottica well might. "Belly Up To The Bar, Boys... Better have a few more
And never whirl with a three-toed girl
or a discontented whore..."
Oh. It's Brown and not Burns. Well I'll be a Tory Democrat! Simon says, "It’s important that people see you are a paid-up member of the human race."
Well, so much for Things Remembered. Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda deputy brands Barack Obama a 'house negro'. (What's Zawahiri on about? There's a sponsor of heroin hackers.) Mr. Obama refused to comment, declining to get into a "tit for tat with a terrorist group". Belly Up To The Bar, Boys, There May Be Trouble, Afoot.
<heroin... it does cloud your judgement a bit.>

must be a lot of IT folk using heroin these days. No wonder there are so many computers getting cracked.