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Last Updated: Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 07:54 GMT 08:54 UK
ID theft spyware scam uncovered
By Mark Ward
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website
Online banking login screen, BBC
Accounts at 50 banks are in danger of being plundered
Thousands of computer users have been caught out by a huge ID theft ring.
Security firm Sunbelt Software said it stumbled across a US-based server storing megabytes of data stolen from compromised computers while researching spyware infections.
The server held passwords for online accounts from 50 banks, Ebay and Paypal logins, hundreds of credit card numbers and reams of personal data.
The FBI has reportedly now started investigating the ring of ID thieves."
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