Supreme Court Justices: They’re Just Like Us
Their personal identity information gets compromised by data breaches. From the Washington Post:
Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company computer. In doing so, he inadvertently opened the private files of his firm, Wagner Resource Group, to the public.That exposed the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 of the firm’s clients, including a number of high-powered lawyers and Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer….
A spokesman for Breyer said the justice had no comment on the security breach, which came to light after the reader notified Security Fix and the blog alerted some of the Wagner clients.
Eh, but who cares about lowly — or low-paid — Supreme Court justices? Lordly law firm partners were also victimized: “‘This may explain why two weeks ago I got a $9,000 cellphone bill from AT&T,’ said Steven Agresta, a partner with the law firm Alston & Bird.”
Or maybe a certain A&B summer associate got a hold of Agresta’s cell phone, and decided to call his homies back in Croatia. Did Agresta also get charged for a small fortune in necktie purchases?
Update: Some of you have asked for an update about Divljan Shatterhand Steele. He’s still a summer associate at Alston & Bird, where he is doing well and has become something of a minor celebrity.
Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File Sharing [Washington Post via Drudge]
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FIRST. And Breyer looks zombie-like in that pic.
number 1
You got served, 9:28(2)!
-9:28(1)
Can we get an update on that Divy at A&B??
Maybe Agresta's daughter just sends a lot of text messages.
(Those suckers are expensive. I need to sign up for a text message plan.)
I GOT DA BOOTAY JUICE!
Breyer's credit rating sucks anyways so even if you applied for a Discover card with his SSN you'd be declined.
What kind of a lousy 1L is applying for a Discover Card? Life's natural Progression...Amex Blue, Amex Gold, Amex Paltinum..for most of us it ends here..but for the non TTT Partners..Amex Black!
thats why i said "even if," 10:42
Kisses,
-AmEx Plat holder
This sounds totally bogus. I wrote much of the LimeWire code, and it won't share anything unless you explicitly tell it to -- just having the program installed doesn't do anything.
This whole report is fishy, and I'd be very curious to learn more about its origins.
-Adam Fisk
justice breyer is going to kill 10:47
What TTT IT department doesn't keep confidential information secured?
most likely, the guys PC was hit with a virus / malware that shared the my docs folder.
the whole thing screams incompetent IT department. hopefully they will be sued to oblivion to make an example of them for skimping on IT.
10:47 -
It isn't such a stretch to believe that someone dumb enough to run third-rate P2P apps on a work computer would point their shared folder location to a folder in which they had stored confidential data, whether or not in violation of company policy. Anyone with half a brain would have packed a Linux livecd and an external HD to pirate away without a trace. Chances are a company that doesn't stop unknown executables from running doesn't have BIOS locked down either.
any company competent to manage financial info should have a firewall that blocks limewire sharing as well as torrent seeding. livecd isnt going to do shit to stop that. anyone with half a brain would download the media to the home pc (via ssh or http) and then transfer to the work pc via http to the home pc.
~11:03
ps... limewire is TTT