Released: October 16, 2009
Steal your own identity
Source: Jennifer Alsever, CNN Money
Todd Feinman spent more than a decade breaking into the computer systems of Fortune 100 companies. Not for his own nefarious purposes, though. The former director at PricewaterhouseCoopers was paid to test corporate security systems. He succeeded in breaching them 80% of the time.
Each time, he found the same gold mine of data—Social Security and credit-card numbers, direct-deposit bank account data, addresses, passwords - hiding in the nooks and crannies of employee computers.
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