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...several small-business owners could extract data on 145,000 people. "They were careful not to trip the triggers, and they did pay their bills," James Lee, ChoicePoint's chief marketing officer, says of the fake businesses. But the Nigerian job did trigger a national debate on privacy, identity theft and the role of the megaminers that dominate the information landscape...
...After a number of successful attempts, a ChoicePoint employee finally got wise and alerted police. When cops nabbed Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, at a Copymat shop in Hollywood, he had five cell phones and three credit cards on him, each under different names. He has pleaded no contest to identity theft, but authorities say others must be involved, since the stolen data have been used in 750 fraud attempts...
...other countries affected are importers of foodstuffs from Britain. Tarnished Temple GREECE Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, rejected calls by several senior clergymen to step down amid a corruption scandal that has seen a number of clerics facing allegations of bribing judges, drug dealing and theft. Christodoulos did announce the suspension of two close aides, but said he was "called upon to lead a cleanup of the church." Apportioning Blame RUSSIA The Prosecutor General's office formally charged Muslim Ibragimov, a Chechen native, with "a murder conspired and conducted by a group of people" in connection...
...financial world's latest cyber-identity crisis, Bank of America today is warning the holders of at least 1.2 million of its federal employee credit card accounts that a major security breach may have left their account information exposed to theft or hacking, according to a senior U.S. official and Bank spokeswoman...
...exorcism—wait, was that Sigourney Weaver from Ghostbusters lying possessed on the bed? No, just some other actress who has captured that grotesque, demonic, yet unsettlingly sexual demeanor that adds a little extra pizzazz to any exorcism scene. It’s all wholesale theft, of course, but then imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery...