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FBI Probing 200,000 Records Exposed In Illinois License Plate Database

Calendar Apr 30, 2004 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The FBI and secretary of state police were trying to determine how a hacker tapped into as many as 200,000 temporary license plate records in an Illinois secretary of state computer database over the weekend, officials said. . . . The FBI and secretary of state police were trying to determine how a hacker tapped into as many as 200,000 temporary license plate records in an Illinois secretary of state computer database over the weekend, officials said.

Only the temporary registration permit database was compromised, not the main drivers' license system that includes Social Security numbers, secretary of state spokesman Dave Druker said Wednesday.

"The only thing we think possibly could have occurred was somebody was able to look at records and print copies," Druker said. "We don't know what they viewed."

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