How about this:

Prosecutors estimate the group stole tens of millions of debit and credit
> card numbers, costing corporations and banks millions when they were forced
> to cancel accounts, open new accounts, monitor accounts for fraud, *beef
> up their network security* and invest in public relations to ensure they
> wouldn't lose customers. Authorities found more than 40 million distinct
> card numbers on two of Gonzalez's computer servers.


Um.... They needed to do that in the first place, so they wouldn't have to
make the other expenditures...

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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

>  How about the businesses who let this happen?
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not long enough and not severe enough, but that is just my opinion.  What
> > about the federal people that were working with this guy.  They get to
> skate
> > with nothing bad to them?  They knew he was a hacker and were not
> watching
> > what he was doing?  Something is not right there as well.
> >
> > Jon
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hacker gets harsh sentence:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/26/hacker-gets-harshest-cybercrime-sentence-passed/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sherry Abercrombie
> >>
> >> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> >> Arthur C. Clarke
> >>
>

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