> One of the tricks he pulled was to offload the RACF Database to a PC and > Dictionary Attack it.
I *believe* that was done by investigators after the fact, attempting to determine how the attack might have been done. I don't recall that there is compelling evidence that Svartholm actually did that. It *is* trivially easy to do, assuming (a.) read access to the DB and (b.) old-style password storage. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2019 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"? Hi Itschak, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (Pirate Bay founder) hacked Logica. One of the tricks he pulled was to offload the RACF Database to a PC and Dictionary Attack it. The Security Admin folks were inexperienced to say the least. (This is not to say that relatively secure site with seasoned veterans can't be hacked. They just made it easy.) Regards, David On 2019-05-05 10:35, ITschak Mugzach wrote: I wonder if there are proved & published cases where mainframe where hacked. I know the Danish case of GCG. ITschak ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
