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"ACTING ON A TIP from a reader, MSNBC visited accounting.CIHost.com Thursday and was able to generate about 1,500 customer records dated from March of last year through Wednesday. The records included the kind of information credit card thieves crave: name, credit card type, credit card number, the amount charged and even some special comments" .. Bullock said the foul-up was not at all related to CIHosts recent system upgrade, which took place around New Years Day. Advertisement [Sure it wasn't...]

Bullock said the foul-up was not at all related to CIHosts recent system upgrade, which took place around New Years Day. That $2 million upgrade has caused the company trouble, as previously reported. Beginning in late December, CIHosts systems became unavailable for several days, meaning all their customers home pages were not viewable." Full story at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/360102.asp

-- Antoine Neron (metis@2000now.org), January 21, 2000