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$28 million payday for data thieves !!
According to the Washington Post for on the black market these days, a full identity (name, SSN, address, bank information, etc) can go for $14 each.
University of Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup tapes from its medical school that contained more than 2 million medical records was stolen in March from a van that was transporting the data to an off-site facility.
So a payday of $28 million beckons.
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April 30th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Dear YGIB
Check out a blog we are doing on the 5th about Loseitback.com (which i founded and failed) and also featuring your company.
Best
Scott
UKpreneur
‘Entrepreneurs Best Friend’
May 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
[...] In the case of the backup tapes that were stolen from the University of Miami last week, it amounts $28 million! With figures like this, even your average laptop thief on the street is going to wake up to the [...]
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Hi Scott
Looking forward to reading your post - drop me a line of you want any further detail of yougetitback.com ! paul@yougetitback.com