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Article: Businesses: Be wary of every keystroke
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Last week, we looked at fraud artists' attempts to trick
consumers into revealing personal and financial data online through
a technique known as "phishing." The cyber criminals are also
targeting businesses, which often lack the protection Maine or
federal law gives individuals.
In the spring of last year, Hannaford executives had one of their
worst fears realized: Hackers had intruded into their computer
network and stolen credit and debit card numbers and expiration
dates.
At the time, The Associated Press cited company officials in
reporting that up to 4.2 million card numbers may have been stolen.
A mid-March report on Computerworld's Web site indicated about 1,800
cases of fraud had ...