Two indicted for redirecting DoD paychecks

It's just not safe anymore in cyberland. In the latest case highlighting how easy it is to crack government sites, a federal grand jury indicted two Southern California men, accusing them of using peer-to-peer file sharing software to hijack the paychecks of five DoD employees, Wired reported last week.

Prosecutors contend that from 2005 to 2006, the defendants accessed the passwords and repeatedly logged into the DoD DFAS MyPay system. They redirected about $20,000 to prepaid credit cards by obtaining the passwords after the victims erroneously made them available on P2P networks.

This case is just the latest example of how files can be funneled out of government websites, and why government needs to exert tighter controls to prevent this from happening.

For more on this DoD paycheck theft:
- see this Wired article

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