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Re: security and online brokerage accounts
Old 11-17-2005, 05:24 AM   #14
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This sounds like a case of stolen identity.* I guess its possible that with all the info on ones computer, the hackers could have stolen enough to allow them to open a phony bank account too.* Pretty scary stuff.
Which further answers the question that was posed on another thread recenly about why some of us go to great lengths to destroy hard disks from old pc's before donating them or throwing them out while others ask "do you really think someone is interested in what you have on your old pc?"
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