No.

Read the original thread here.

It was a vulnerability in a Web server.

Hacking the RACF database was done well after the fact, by investigators.

Charles


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Subject: Re: Can backup mechanisms be used to steal RACF database? was Re: 
mainframe hacking "success stories"?

That's what happened in the Swedish bank hack, back in 2012.  

In that, once they got the database copy on their pc, they used hacker tools 
that are out there, to crack all the passwords.

Peter

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