Also money transfers are traceable.... I am guessing that they also have EC card data.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jost Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:11:48PM +0200, James Matthews wrote: > > German banks are some of the oldest in the world. This is pretty scary > > however it is also the reality of germanys new laws... I hope they find > it > > soon and protect the people that need to be protected > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/12/09/0125201.shtml > > What Slashdot doesn't say: > > What was disclosed were 1.2 million account numbers plus additional > information, but not means of access. This is bad enough of course. > > The 21 million were claimed to be available by the perps, which is > believable, as they tried to sell them to a newspaper. > > The trail seems to lead to small call centers, where someone collects > these data and sells them on the side. The banks seem not to be > involved at all. > > If you find this all weird, payments in Germany work totally different > from the US. Noone uses checks for private payments, either you use > money transfer or you have the money directly pulled from your account > (and you can call it back for at least 6 weeks). So a lot of people know > your account number. > > Jost > -- > | Helft Spam ausrotten! HTML in Mail ist unhöflich. | > | Postmaster, JAPH, manchmal Wahrsager am RZ der RUB | > | Wahre Worte sind nicht gefällig, gefällige Worte sind nicht wahr.| > | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 | > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- http://www.goldwatches.com/ http://www.jewelerslounge.com/
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