Information Security News: Stolen data reveal undercover cops

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/796315.asp

[John Young has a copy of the leaked information at: 
http://cryptome.org/aid-nia-db.htm  - WK]


By Bob Sullivan
MSNBC 
Aug. 20 2002

Surveillance firm's client list is stolen and posted on Internet; 
undercover police officers, Secret Service names revealed

Computer intruders have allegedly broken into the online files of a 
Florida company that provides surveillance technology to the U.S. 
military, federal agencies and local police forces, and posted 
confidential information, including the names and email addresses of 
undercover police officers on a public Web site, MSNBC.com has 
learned.
        
INFORMATION ABOUT UNDERCOVER narcotics officers, U.S. Secret 
Service Investigators, Department of Defense special agents and 
hundreds of other local and federal law enforcement workers was 
revealed when the data from Audio Intelligence Devices Inc.'s files 
were posted on the Internet. 
       
The Florida-based private company sells highly specialized 
video surveillance equipment and teaches spy courses to federal 
agencies and local police forces in the United States, and to some 
foreign governments.
       
Lon D. Guarino, Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Audio 
Intelligence Devices did not answer questions about the incident, but 
in an e-mail to MSNBC.com defended the company's security practices.
       
"Contrary to any recent reports, Audio Intelligence Devices is 
confident in its current security practices and treats its customer 
information with complete confidentiality," Guarino wrote. "We are 
actively investigating the origin of the information in question at 
this time."
       
MSNBC.com contacted each law enforcement official whose e-mail 
address was taken from the AID files and listed on an Internet page -
349 in all. Of those who replied, none said they knew their 
information had been made public until they were contacted by 
MSNBC.com.  

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