It may have been here or elsewhere that someone did not believe me that commercial data exposures were at least as bad and frequent as government data exposures.
Here is a classic commercial data exposure:
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:38:49 -0400 =46rom: Monty Solomon Subject: 3 Indicted in Theft of 130 Million Card Numbers
On 24 Aug 2009, Albert Gonzalez was indicted along with two unspecified Russian conspirators. Charges included theft of 130 million credit and debit card numbers from late 2006 to early 2008 from various sources
-- Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, Hannaford Brothers, and others. Some of those numbers were sold online and used in identity frauds. Gonzalez is already waiting trial for previous cases involving T.J. Maxx (in Massachusetts) and the Dave & Buster restaurant chain (in New York). [Source: Brad Stone, *The New York Times*, 18 Aug 2009; PGN-ed]
--=20 Transmitted with recycled bits. Damnly my frank, I don't give a dear
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