Confessions of a “Big Bad Criminal”

An interesting story from Weld County, CO on a guy in a jail who accessed and printed a list of almost 1,000 Weld employee records. Some details:

"Loader successfully exploited a loophole in computer security at the jail because of a mistake by Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas, the computer company entrusted with maintaining the county’s information technology."

"Because of what Loader found on the computer and decided to print, hundreds of Weld employees filed fraud alerts with credit bureaus, opened new checking accounts and spent the past two months hoping they wouldn’t become victims of identity theft. The computer company picked up the tab."

It is not clear from the article exactly what information was stolen, but this looks like an easy $50,000 worth of damage, not including the time and effort involved with changing everything.