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Released: April 13, 2011
Data thieves target e-mail addresses
Source: Byron Achohido, USA Today
In the past four months, caches of customer e-mail addresses, not banking and credit card information, have become the key target of data thieves. The goal: Use the legitimate e-mail addresses and the specific companies their owners have business relationships with to get people to buy worthless goods or to infect their PCs.
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