Hackers Tap Navy Credit Card System

[Medea]

A Department of Defense (DOD) investigative team is researching the recent hack of a Navy system that gained access to 13,000 purchase cards issued by Citibank. The Navy has subsequently cancelled all of its approximately 22,000 purchase cards.

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[LeadMagnet]

maybe they should hire Japan's home affairs minister to help with security.

Minister defends Japanese "Big Brother" idenity database as hackerproof

 

[UltraQuiet]

As if there isn't enough problems with these cards as it is.

Read an article the other day where a Marine reservist had used the purchase card to buy a car, put a down payment on another, had a boob job done and some other stuff. Charged up like $120,000 worth of sh!t. She's now turning big rocks into little rocks.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Ultra Quiet
As if there isn't enough problems with these cards as it is.

Read an article the other day where a Marine reservist had used the purchase card to buy a car, put a down payment on another, had a boob job done and some other stuff. Charged up like $120,000 worth of sh!t. She's now turning big rocks into little rocks.

Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Ultra Quiet
As if there isn't enough problems with these cards as it is.

Read an article the other day where a Marine reservist had used the purchase card to buy a car, put a down payment on another, had a boob job done and some other stuff. Charged up like $120,000 worth of sh!t. She's now turning big rocks into little rocks.

Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.

They should've repossesed her new tits.

 

[LeadMagnet]

They should've repossesed her new tits.

It was a guy - he now requires hormon injections while in jail.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Ultra Quiet

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Ultra Quiet
As if there isn't enough problems with these cards as it is.

Read an article the other day where a Marine reservist had used the purchase card to buy a car, put a down payment on another, had a boob job done and some other stuff. Charged up like $120,000 worth of sh!t. She's now turning big rocks into little rocks.

Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.

They should've repossesed her new tits.

Actually it seems to me, they are now public property and should be treated as such

 

[Medea]

The abuse was referenced to in the article. What I'd like to know is, especially since they've been having problems with the credit card program, why the hell weren't their ports in stealth status?

 

[Moonbeam]

Probably disillusioned over being sent to war for a lie.

 

[etech]

Originally posted by: MountainTop
The abuse was referenced to in the article. What I'd like to know is, especially since they've been having problems with the credit card program, why the hell weren't their ports in stealth status?

Perhaps they should have hired some of those security firms to improve their security. Many of them use ex-hackers because they know best how to protect against breakins.

 

[Crimson]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Probably disillusioned over being sent to war for a lie.

Trolling as usual...

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Crimson

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Probably disillusioned over being sent to war for a lie.

Trolling as usual...

Ignore it. <--It works.

CkG

 

[Moonbeam]

I know this will draw attention to Caddy, but could you please ignore him. And don't think hipopotomus.

And no I wasn't trolling, I was reading minds.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I know this will draw attention to Caddy, but could you please ignore him. And don't think hipopotomus.

And no I wasn't trolling, I was reading minds.

Minds of trolls perhaps?

This is pretty bad that this happened. I myself have a govt purchase card and there's no real hard restrictions on it's usage.