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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:14:08 -0400 
From:      Chad Day <cday@beachassociates.com>
To:        "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   System intrusion
Message-ID:  <A8D9B16D2196D2118B6E00A0C9E307F423857A@beachpdc1.beachassociates.com>

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It appears that one of the users on my system either had a password stolen,
or gave it out.  This was an account shared by several users to allow
uploading of files to a particular directory.

Some malicious user got a hold of this, either from another user, or cracked
it.   He then accessed my box and proceeded to delete files from the
directory, along with creating a directory saying something like "TMaN
hacked this".  

All I have logwise that I can see is his connection in the wtmp file, and
when the directory was created which matches that time.  I don't know where
to look for any more details.  ftpd was started up with the -l flag, but
there's no syslog file or ftp.log file.

I have his IP address he's accessing from (he's coming from aol) and the
times of access.. he's been logging back in over the past couple days, I've
changed the account password to shut him out, no other successful
connections.  The group that user was in only had rights to that directory,
so I'm not too concerned about anything else being compromised, but I am
keeping an eye out for it.

My question is:  what can I do?  Should I contact the FBI?  (if so, if
anyone knows how to go about this best who has had prior experience, I would
appreciate information)  Contact AOL (which seems to be a waste of time)?   

I highly suspect that is the right IP address too - we run an IRC channel
related to the webpage, and he has repeatedly evaded bans with that AOL
account.. he's not really smart enough to know how to go about cloaking
himself.

Chad Day
Beach Associates

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