Hackers raid massive database of rich and famous
A hacker group which breached Adobe systems last month appears to have made a huge haul in swiping some 850,000 cleartext records from a limousine service which ferried some of the world's most rich and famous.
Data including the phone numbers and residence of actors, top executives and politicians were now in the hands of crackers along with a quarter of a million cleartext credit card numbers for their limitless or near-limitless American Express accounts and some damning observations taken by drivers of the well-heeled passengers.
The records reportedly stolen from US business CorporateCarOnline included information on NBA champion LeBron James, actor Tom Hanks and businessman Donald Trump along with directors and chief executives at Morgan Stanley, Boeing and Lego Corp. Other notes obtained included enough details on the company's famous fares to make a tabloid editor salivate. Driver's had in notes named customers who had performed sex acts in vehicles, smoked pot or had criminal histories.
