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2300 British PCs compromised - PII found on seized US computer
From: Chris Walsh <cwalsh () cwalsh org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:06:29 -0500
[This one is an interesting -- where the losses are due to malice, not just stupidity. It's sad/amusing that when the London police emailed victims, few responded, assuming that the emails were a hoax] Thousands fall victim to data theft Graeme Wearden and Tom Espiner ZDNet UK October 10, 2006, 17:30 BST Police are trying to contact thousands of UK computer users who have fallen victim to an massive personal data heist. The Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that a computer seized in the US had been found to contain personal information from around 2,300 PCs based in Britain. This included email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers and details of online transactions. According to the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit, the data was stolen via a piece of malware that was secretly installed on the victim's machines. [...] More at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39284001,00.htm _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 136 million compromised records in 403 incidents over 6 years.
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