You might have seen this story : ...600000 Norwegians.. http://www.physorg.com/news105962152.html
Tele2 operates in 22 European countries. It provides broadband services and lot more. And maintains utterly insecure websites (or uses the dreaded OS for safety critical applications). These M$windows users cannot distinguish between hackers and crackers...
..."It said they had used a weakness on the website of the telephone operators Tele2 to procure the national personal identity numbers and addresses of subscribers, amounting to 1.3 percent of the country's population.
The information would enable the hackers to change the addresses of the people concerned so as to intercept their mail, or order goods on their account. "...
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A. Mani