This is one of the things that scares me the most.

[Skew]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Military-Computer-Attack-nytimes-3626366136.html?x=0

[Jangler]

Why would they tell the world that this happened?

[charlotte49er]

I don't know of any institution that announces that it has gotten hacked.

A few years ago, my neighbor banked with BofA and her bank account went to negative. (After having a fairly large deposit in it, her words.) She said that her BofA in Florida had gotten hacked and 100,000's of dollars had just disappeared. She evenutally got her money back courtesy of the bank, but it took several months.

Banks rarely go after the hackers for fear of the publicity, they just try and seal the leak and replace the money. (If you are a hacker, go after the banks!) That should scare you more as much as the military getting hacked. The world money supply if shaky enough all ready.

[Guest]

60 minutes did an episode recently on cyberwarfare. Scared the crap out of me.

China has apparently implanted programs into our power grids that are just sitting there and could potentially shut down the grid on the entire west coast...

one dude stole the names and SSNs of thousands of people in VA from a state medical database. Hacked the system and changed the password to his own. Asked for $10MM for the new password or he'd start selling the SSNs. VA claimed they "recovered" the data but when asked if they paid the $10MM "We cant comment on that". Hmmm....