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The corridors of the Rugby World Cup

Friday, September 7, 2007 at 5:12am by Francois Paget
Francois Paget

The Rugby World Cup is a premier international rugby union competition. It is a major event in France where we support our blue shirts of the national team. Today, will be the first match! The opening game will see hosts France take on Argentina in Paris, while Ireland’s first clash will be against Namibia on Sunday.

This morning the famous French online news site Zataz announced that this event interested a Turkish hacker who broke into a French car manufacturer sponsor’s website, perhaps hoping to find some tickets for himself or for resale.

An anonymous correspondent gave to the reporter some screenshots available on a US server. They demonstrated that this intruder, nicknamed Turkish Defacer, was able to access identity, e-mail address and electronic ticket belonging to the 288 VIP guests that the sponsor invited.

Collected data (the 2 next screenshots are from Zataz) were found on a UK server with others pieces of banking information (branch, account number, etc.) from various French partners of one of the world’s largest steel producers.

Perhaps some cybercriminals love sports, but the money lure is never far away!

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