Stolen credit card data

[Tim Lowrey]

Any of you that may have used Bibliofind, a subsidiary of Amazon.com,
to find and purchase rare systematics books should know about the
loss of credit card data to hackers. The following message says it
all.


Tuesday,  March 6, 2001

AMAZON UNIT LOSES CREDIT CARD DATA TO HACKERS

March 06, 2001 06:56 AM

AMAZON.COM SUBSIDIARY BIBLIOFIND.COM said Monday that
hackers stole the company's customer records,
including credit card information, according to a
report in the on-line edition of The Wall Street
Journal published Tuesday.


For Full Story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/03/06/010306hnbiblio.xml?0306alert

Tim Lowrey
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Dr. Tim K. Lowrey
Director of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, Associate Professor
of Biology, and Curator, UNM Herbarium
Dept. of Biology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505)277-2604
Fax: (505)277-6079
WWW: http://www.unm.edu/~museum