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CEO Nabbed for Identity Theft From Own Employees

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alright-people-I'm-going-to-need-some-maiden-names dept.

BuzzardsBay writes "And you think your boss is a jerk? Check out this VARBusiness story about a tech CEO the feds say was using his employees' personal information to apply for loans and credit cards to the tune of $1 million. Somewhere a whole lot of businesses who bought this guy's managed-services pitch are cringing with the thought of who is taking care of their data now. And 50 employees are gonna have to sweat out their credit reports even as they look for new jobs. Now that's a lousy boss!"

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  1. I'm a bit slow by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hang on. And we're NOT talking about Hewlett-Packard here?

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    1. Re:I'm a bit slow by Maddog787 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just wait - he'll show up in Brazil sipping margaritas with Enron's Ken Lay after his alleged death!

  2. Re:evil CEOs are no worse than dying dotcoms by fishbowl · · Score: 3, Funny

    "What do you suppose happens to your identity when a dotcom with DBs full of identities are crashing and burning?"

    I expect I still have my identity no matter what.

    But, in all seriousness, I'm not worried about ID theft.

    You see, I have already destroyed my creditworthiness completely. It's hardly a risk that someone will take my info and get any kind of loan or credit card based on them.

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  3. Massive Installation? by HockeyPuck · · Score: 2, Funny
    This cracks me up...

    Compulinx also manages a massive IT infrastructure, which includes four data centers, more than 300 servers and a whopping 40 TB of storage.


    What is this? One midrange disk array?

    I bet if the editor walked into their datacenter they'd find more than 40TB...
  4. Re:evil CEOs are no worse than dying dotcoms by Nataku564 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You steal someone else's identity, of course.

  5. Re:then why the AC post? by indifferent+children · · Score: 2, Funny
    If you really felt safe, then why did you post as an Anonymous Coward??

    Hey, the Coward family has been plagued by their name for years. They thought they were doing the son a favor by naming him "Anonymous".

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