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Online
Girl Gets Random Guys on Craigslist To Call Ex-Boyfriend, Talk Dirty To Him
4:20AM Jason Chen | Placing a fake Craigslist ad for random strangers to call your ex-boyfriend at work to “talk dirty to him” may be funny, but it can now also get you charged with identity theft. More »
Online
NASA Computer Used to Ruin a Businessman’s Credit
4:45AM Sean Fallon | A software engineer/landord with high-level security clearance has been charged with stealing the identity of David Welch, a former tenant, using a NASA computer at the Kennedy Space Center. More »
Press
Your Stolen Data Is Worth Nothing
4:20AM Brian Lam | According to the bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec (.pdf), identity thieves aren’t getting nearly as rich off of your stolen or “misplaced” data as they used to. As the AP reports, the sheer glut of personal information being pilfered these days, combined with a falling U.S. dollar and fierce competition among identity hawkers, has driven the prices for such stolen data down to “bargain-basement levels.” Researchers say that internet fraudsters are therefore doing what any self-respecting salesman would do: offering volume discounts. Currently, some stolen credit-card numbers are begin sold in batches of 500 for as low as US$200. That’s 40 cents for each number, less than half the price observed during the first half of 2007, according to the report. More »
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