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The Department of Justice over in the US has announced charges against three individuals over the theft of more than 1 billion email addresses over a three-year period. According to the indictment, Vietnamese citizen, Viet Quoc Nguyan, broke in to eight different email providers, harvesting a ton of personal information.
An additional person helped him use millions of the emails found for spam marketing, while a second person assisted in laundering the money earned from the scam.
Nguyen is now a fugitive facing cyber crime charges. “This case demonstrates there is no such thing as anonymity for those engaging in data theft and fraudulent schemes,” said Secret Service Agent Reginald Moore.
The case started back in 2011 when Epsilon Marketing had its security breached. None of the other providers involved in the case were named but they were probably marketing services, rather than consumer email sites like Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail.
The majority of the data in the case was taken from corporate mailing lists, like Best Buy.
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KitGuru Says: That's a sizable amount of emails for just three people to steal and abuse. If you target that many marketing companies, you are bound to slip up and get caught eventually.
B4 Airy-Fairies jump up for joy over the “announcement” [should it be true, that is], it will be prudent to remember that there is no such thing as Truth within Untruth. Not if self is interested in reality/singularly-natured – and becoming so – and not in relativity/multi-facetted-natured. You know, that of merely yakking so and then, presto, to imagine that, somehow but don’t know how, self had become real by blindly believing so, the way Finger-Pointers are created.
Now, when The Very Soul of The Administration is Of Propaganda, you know, souless, begging, stealing, lying, cheating, cruelly policing/incarcerating, etc. normally re-presented as being of Roses, Whiteness & Sparkling White Teeth, that of Might & Right/Cruel & Cunning expressing their Because I Can mantra, how come the small guys always get hit first – and re-presented as being the only bad apples in the basket? Beecuz Shoppin’, Entertainin’, Electioneerin’, Warrin’, Exchangin’, and so forth are the hobbies of Airy-fairies and their Bully Boyz, perhaps? When The Lunatics are running The Asylum, then, only those outside of The Asylum are krazy. How convenient. Yes, Eet ist gut to be zer Kinge, Ja?
Perhaps this is the moment to be conscious and be aware that the way and means Bigge Thieves are perpetually able to Get Away with Eet is to not only rat on their Small Thieves but to sacrifice these unfortunate patsies to the Lynching Masses, oka The Voyueristic Self-Indulgent Blood Suckers. [Small-time crooks are mostly “Unfortunate” because they are mostly forced into their predicaments by circumstance and not by design/volition/malevolence, the difference between those who steal without risk and those who do with risk being the reward. Topsy-Turvy being the contemporary universe, Big Crooks {like “Politicians”}, oka The Innately Crooked, steal because it is easy whereas Little Crooks, oka The Circumstantially Crooked, steal because it is harder not to do so].
Austerity and other measures of Control are correct but not when it is implemented by The Truly Malevolent, if only because then, it is merely Control being Its Freakism morphing-into/liberating-its-latency, Abandonment. Without being Real, how could those of Relativity devise and control the process of implementing Reality? One reason why when Taxation & Credit is crying out about “Global Warming” and similar Ding Dong Merrily on Highs, all T&C is interested in is to have First Dibs at the Proceeds of Looting. When that is the case, when Control is merely liberating Its Abandonment, Control, oka Nazism/Facism, could not care less if The Other/”Justified” lived or die other than Control-Abandonment being a Strange Bedfellow to Count de Money. That of Eternally Spinning The Might & Right Wheel of Fortune, oka The Round Robin Robbing of “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul”.