Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves

Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-08-05

The U.S. government may have closed the book on the TJX Companies credit-card breach and at least eight other recent thefts of financial data.

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Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves 2008-08-06
Anonymous

Please stop using the term "Identity Theft". There is already a term for this and it is called Fraud.

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Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves 2008-08-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

LIFE?

wtf....

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Re: Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves 2008-08-08
Anonymous

Yes, Life.

It's reported that he is cumbajohnny from shadowcrew.

If you dont know, google shadowcrew + cumbajohnny ...

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Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves 2008-08-11
A Banker

First, I do agree with the first comment about the situation referring to fraudulent activity, not identity theft. I also agree with the second and third comments about ?Life?. If the punishment could be any more severe, I would agree to that also.

My comment is this: Until the government step...

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over-reaction to break-in 2008-08-16
Benjamin Wright

Careful reading of the indictments of the TJX data thieves show that the media, card issuers and Federal Trade Commission over-reacted to the TJX incident. TJX was not as bad as we were led to believe. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/credit-card-iss.html...

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