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Courtesy ISN:  Follow-up to iBill story

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70380-0.html

Online payment company iBill on Thursday said a massive cache of
stolen consumer data uncovered by security experts did not come from
its database.

"I'm the first person that would have taken this to the FBI and the
first person to have gone on 60 Minutes to say 'we screwed up,' if
that were the case," said iBill President Gary Spaniak Jr.

Two caches of stolen data were discovered separately by two security
companies while conducting routine research into malicious software
online. Both had file names that purportedly linked them to iBill.

Southern California-based Secure Science Corporation found the first
data file containing records on 17 million individuals on a private
website set up by scammers. The site was part of a so-called
"phishing" scheme, in which a spamming fraudster poses as a bank or
online retailer in an attempt to con consumers out of identification
and financial information.

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