Devious Tactic Snags Phone Data
Kim Zetter writes on Wired News:
Online information brokers pried thousands of private cell-phone records from Verizon Wireless by posing as speech-impaired customers and company employees, court documents show.More here.
The charges, which appear in a civil suit filed by Verizon in Florida late last year, shed a rare light on the shadowy world of online phone-record vendors -- a cottage industry among private investigators that has operated below the radar for years but is now in the spotlight amid a flurry of private suits and calls for laws restricting phone-record sales.
posted by Fergie @ 1/17/2006 06:45:00 AM
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