Stupid factor: Hackers did NOT steal Bill Gates' credit card

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From: B.K. DeLong (bkdelong@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 08:07:20 PST

Hey all,

You may have seen stories that the Welsh credit card kiddies known as
"Curador" got ahold of Bill Gates' credit card information. This is a
result of one of the kids telling a London Telegraph reporter[0] this and
then Reuters[1] telling it as fact.

But Reuters didn't seem to count on someone actually having a copy of the
page[2] making the claim to prove them so incredibly wrong.

This on the heals of a story claiming the "Coolio" arrested in New
Hampshire was a member of the hacking group "Global Hell" 2 weeks after AP,
MSNBC and CNN had articles made mention that the FBI visited a hacker named
Coolio affiliated with "Global Hell" in Southern California and determined
that he wasn't who they were looking for. [3]

Not to mention the story last year about "Hackers Take Over British
Satellite".[4]

[0]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002595646834577&rtmo=aTJJ4W6J&atmo=KKKKKKYM
&pg=/et/00/3/26/nhack26.html

[1] http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35197,00.html

[2] http://www.attrition.org/mirror/curador

[3] http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/000303/9i.html

[4] http://www.sightings.com/ufo2/hackuk.htm (see bottom of page for
original article) 

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B.K. DeLong
Research Lead
ZOT Group

617.642.7149
bkdelong@zotgroup.com
http://www.zotgroup.com

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