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Data centre looted in multimillion pound overnight heist
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI agree - it sounds very odd.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostIf thiefs nicked just memory then people in data center should consider themselves lucky - getting clients data would have been far more serious because damages are less quantifiable so those who lost the data are likely to go for a very high figure that is hard to verify.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostThe sort of data a large IB has would only be useful to another IB - and they would not touch anything illegal.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWell, if some big e-commerce site hosted there, do you think they would not use database in this "secure" data center to keep credit card numbers, addresses etc?
I reckon when the thieves find out that whatever was taken is worthless, then the informer will be in big trouble.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI can assure you that it was not an e-commerce site. Just an IB was it.
The last kind of fake-police raid that I heard about in this country was when those guys stole 50 mln quid, this kind of thing is pretty difficult to plan and execute, so I would really be suprised of thiefs did not take hard disks - if they did then this all definately about data, but if they only took RAM chips then it probably not.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostInformation about clients and amounts they deal with is worth a lot to certain people
The kit costs alot to buy but will be hard to fence.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThere are bigger people who would love to have this kind of data.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View Postsuch as? how would they use it?Comment
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