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Supreme Court Justice Caught Up in Limewire Data Breach
Date : 2008 07 09 Category : Web News
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Investment firm employee shared more than he bargained for, including the names, dates, and social security numbers of some 2,000 of the firm's clients with others using the popular file-sharing program.
Everybody with the even the faintest knowledge of file-sharing programs and networks knows that although sharing content is integral for the health of a given P2P community, it's always paramount that you monitor EXACTLY WHAT and HOW MUCH you are sharing.
Apparently this was the first of many rules ignored by an employee of the Wagner Resource Group, a financial services firm founded in 1979, who decided to install Limewire on his work PC and share the confidential contents of his HDD with the rest of the world. He managed to expose the names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of some 2,000 of the firm's clients, the most notable being Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, over a six month period!
Heaven forbid if he sees another P2P or file-sharing related case come across the Supreme Court docket in the future.