Digital Thieves Use Ex-Employees Accounts

prostoalex writes "The New York Times is running an article about a new generation of digital thugs. Using unsecured wireless networks, free e-mail accounts, a wealth of security knowledge, and, most important - employee passwords, thieves are getting access to valuable company databases. Once they're in, they start extorting the companies to pay up for them to leave. Otherwise phony e-mails to customers and sensitive information published publicly will lead to an embarrassment."

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Re:Nothing will change...

[goldspider]

Steal? I wasn't aware that people were physically breaking into banks and stealing records.

Oh, you mean copy? OK, then where's the crime? These weren't even copyrighted works.