Good morning -

This came out in the news this morning.  Below are a few "snippets" from
the article just to peak your interest.  Sounds as though  "You Got
Mail!" is taking on a whole new meaning...........Should be "You Got
Mail, but We Got Your Personal Information!".  I am sure we could all
come up with a funny one for this AOL blunder but at the end of the day
this is a very serious issue that hopefully gets addressed and
corrected.  I am not sure if any AOL users know about this or if they
would fully understand the ramifications of this security breach?  

"Officials arrested an America Online (AOL) employee for allegedly
stealing 92 million members' screen names, which were later sold to
spammers."

>From there, he "began assembling a complete list of AOL's customer
account screen names and related zip codes, credit card types (but no
credit card numbers), and telephone numbers of AOL customers,"
authorities said in a statement. AOL keeps credit card numbers in a
separate storage area.

The spammers used the lists to market "herbal penile enlargement pills,"
the complaint alleges.

Below is the link to the full article.  
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3372711


Samantha Bridges
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Macomb Intermediate School District
44001 Garfield Road
Clinton Township  MI  48038-1100
(586) 228-3300

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