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Re:Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents by cafard on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @09:50AM (#11065604)
Ca. 1996, the DOJ web server was hacked by somebody. At this point, I don't remember the details--Adolf Hitler as AG, a naughty picture or two. It shouldn't be hard to find.
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Re:Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents by mikeash on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @10:28AM (#11065879)
That makes for nice headlines, but anyone who actually understands this stuff knows that hacking the public-facing web server is not a big deal and not really related to obtaining private info like this.

Edit: I just remembered, there is (of course) a relevant xkcd for this: https://xkcd.com/932/

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