Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate

From: Richard M. Smith (rms_at_computerbytesman.com)
Date: 01/22/04

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    Infiltration of files seen as extensive
    Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats
    By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004

    WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee
    infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy
    memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told
    The Globe.

    From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP
    committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access
    restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through
    hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of
    private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight --
    and with what tactics.

    The office of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has already launched an
    investigation into how excerpts from 15 Democratic memos showed up in the
    pages of the conservative-leaning newspapers and were posted to a website
    last November.

    With the help of forensic computer experts from General Dynamics and the US
    Secret Service, his office has interviewed about 120 people to date and
    seized more than half a dozen computers -- including four Judiciary servers,
    one server from the office of Senate majority leader Bill Frist of
    Tennessee, and several desktop hard drives.

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