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movieaddict) wrote2008-12-19 07:37 pm
movieaddict) wrote2008-12-19 07:37 pm
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Credit-card data theft in Germany... or: how a stolen Christmas cake provokes a scandal
A few days ago Germany was rocked by (another) scandal regarding stolen data. This time a parcel containing thousands of credit card holders' data turned up at the "Frankfurter Rundschau" newspaper.
Now the culprit was discovered: a Christmas cake, or more precisely: two delivery men, who instead of delivering it to the "FR" opened the parcel and ate the cake. So what would you do if you wanted to disguise that you've just stolen something? Yes, of course! You take another parcel, addressed to a major german bank (they should after all get 6 packages, surely they won't notice if one's missing), put the address label of the newspaper's parcel onto it and deliver as if nothing happened. source
No offence, but I'm pretty sure I can guess why those two don't work as nuclear physicists.
Now the culprit was discovered: a Christmas cake, or more precisely: two delivery men, who instead of delivering it to the "FR" opened the parcel and ate the cake. So what would you do if you wanted to disguise that you've just stolen something? Yes, of course! You take another parcel, addressed to a major german bank (they should after all get 6 packages, surely they won't notice if one's missing), put the address label of the newspaper's parcel onto it and deliver as if nothing happened. source
No offence, but I'm pretty sure I can guess why those two don't work as nuclear physicists.