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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (119647)	3/8/2001 9:05:06 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

i'll defer to glenn's experience that more stolen #s are used on the net. however, that doesn't saay much about where* or how those numbers were stolen. two different points.* Here are some handy references: [According to the FBI and Secret Service] in the largest criminal Internet attack to date, a group of Eastern European hackers has spent a year systematically exploiting known Windows NT vulnerabilities to steal customer data. More than a million credit cards have been taken and more than 40 sites have been victimized. The investigations have disclosed several organized hacker groups from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia and the Ukraine, that have penetrated U.S. e-commerce computer systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched Microsoft Windows NT operating systems. These vulnerabilities were originally reported and addressed in Microsoft Security Bulletins MS98-004 (re-released in MS99-025), MS00-014, and MS00-008. As early as 1998, Microsoft discovered these vulnerabilities and developed and publicized patches to fix them. Computer users can download these patches from Microsoft for free. sans.org internetnews.com