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    Posted 10/01/2000 12:43pm by Thomas
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    Popular online billing software               -----------------------------------------
    hacked                                                    [Industry Gossip]

    A Russian computer enthusiast                          [Daily Net Finance News]
    claims to have exploited a security
    flaw in ICVerify, the popular                             [T-shirts! Hats!]
    billing software for online
    credit-card transactions marketed                    The Register Bulletin Board
    by Cybercash, Inc.
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    And in so doing he has culled a
    spectacular total of over 300,000                     Links to Web-related Sites
    working accounts, the New York
    Times reports.                                    The Quick Guide to Register Jargon

    The intruder allegedly obtained                           Flame of the Week
    customer account details from CD
    Universe, an online music merchant,         Download The Register's MacOS Sherlock Plug-in
    by exploiting a security weakness
    in the ICVerify software which the                The Register's MyNetscape Channel
    company uses. He then approached CD
    Universe with a proposal to destroy                  How to link to The Register
    the stolen data in exchange for US
    $100,000. The company declined the            -----------------------------------------
    offer, and the extortionist replied      If you want daily updates on news, enter your email
    by distributing some 25,000 working       address below, then click the 'Join List' button.
    account numbers on a Web site from                              [Image]
    Christmas day, though the site has                       Powered by ListBot
    recently been shut down.

    We will post further details of
    this rather intriguing and
    potentially embarrassing story as
    they become available. ®

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