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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (58989)	8/9/2004 8:41:16 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793745

BN hacked? It was an inside job: Human Events magazine reported today that the BarnedandNoble.com web site was "hacked" - accessed by unathorized persons - and that an image of a bookcover, a book critical of John Kerry, was replaced with a different image. The title of the book "Unfit to Serve" was changed to "Fit to Serve" and the photo on the cover was changed from a recent photo of Kerry gesturing during a speech with a photo of Kerry with his Swift Boat crewmates taken during the Vietnam War. The National Debate has learned from high-level sources at Akamai, the internet hosting provider for BarnesandNoble.com, that investigators do not believe the bookseller site was "hacked", as originally reported by Human Events magazine, but rather that an unauthorized person gained access to the "customer account portal" using a compromised password. The National Debate was told "it is most likely that the passwords that controlled B&N account had been compromised...just like if your PIN code was compromised on your ATM card." Asked if this might have been an inside job, TND's source told TND, "it could be...there was no sign of 'breaking and entering'" thenationaldebate.com