[Dataloss] Webroot uncovers thousands of stolen identities

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/09/78139_HNTrojanrebery_1.html

By Paul Roberts
May 09, 2006

Spyware researchers at Webroot Software. have uncovered a stash of tens of 
thousands of stolen identities from 125 countries that they believe were 
collected by a new variant of a Trojan horse program the company is 
calling Trojan-Phisher-Rebery.

The FBI is investigating the stolen information, which was discovered on a 
password-protected FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server in the U.S. and is 
believed to be connected to a Trojan horse that is installed from the Web 
site teens7(dot)com. The information, organized by country, includes 
names, phone numbers, social security numbers, and user log-ins and 
passwords for tens of thousands of Web sites, according to information 
provided to InfoWorld by Webroot.

The discovery is just the latest evidence of rampant identity theft by 
online criminals who use malicious Web sites, common software 
vulnerabilities and keylogging software to harvest information from 
unsuspecting Web surfers.

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