RE: Background Checks for DBAs

Neither one sounds like the brightest star in the sky.

 

Joel Patterson 
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Subject: Re: Background Checks for DBAs

 

I heard a story about someone who worked for a major financial company
in the 1990s. He got Bill Clintons social security number from one of
the databases and ran a credit check on him.

 

took some time but the secret service ended up calling the CEO and
asking him about it. The person got walked out of the building by
security. 

 

I also know about a developer who coded a system and had it print him
hundreds of identical checks. He then tried to cash them (something like
$15 million) and got caught because all the checks were identical. Spent
several years in jail.

 

This kind of thing is pretty rare though... 

 

        -------------- Original message -------------- 
        From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> 
        On 2/21/07, MacGregor, Ian A. <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

                ...
                Most information theft is by People who have legitimate
access.
                
                Ian MacGregor
                Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

        
        Do you have something to back  up that statement?
        
        Most white collar crimes are committed by management, 
        upper management at that.
        
        I offer as evidence the folks that end up going to prison for
it.
        
        While I have heard of a DBA stealing data for illicit gain,
        it seems to be pretty rare.
        
        
        -- 
        Jared Still
        Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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