netTracers Security News Blog

Thursday, August 25, 2005

US Air Force scrambles after privacy breach | The Register

"The US Air Force has been forced to notify more than 33,000 airmen that their personal details might have been exposed following the discovery of a computer security breach. The notification comes after Air Force personnel officers discovered suspiciously high activity on one account into a careers database, called AMS (Assignment Management System), dating back to June."


This hack was done using existing and valid login credentials....Shows the need for good multifactor authentication.

-Bryan