WEF data hacked
ck | 05.02.2001 10:06
Anti-WEF activists copied 160 MB data...
The hackers copied creditcard-numbers, private telephone-numbers, arrival and departure times and other private data.
WEF data hacked
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The information about people who have attended the World Economic Forum, staged each year in Davos, were on a CD-ROM shown to a Zurich newspaper, SonntagsZeitung.
Data seems to have been obtained by unnamed campaigners against globalisation, who hacked into the foundation which puts on the annual meeting. SonntagsZeitung said that credit card firms began freezing the affected accounts at the weekend.
More from article in Guardian (5/02/01)at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,433637,00.html
BBC web article (4/02/01) at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1152000/1152966.stm
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