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Bank employees can be the biggest ID theft threat
When two of the nation's largest banks were forced to notify thousands of customers that their financial records may have been stolen, there wasn't a hacker, a missing laptop or a lost box of backup computer tapes to blame.

This time, police believe, customers of Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp. were the victims of bank employees, workers whose jobs at the Charlotte-based banks granted them access to information valuable enough to sell for $10 an account. more..
Computer snooping a growing security problem
One person "lost everything." For someone else, everything "just shut down."

These people were not reciting the impact of a hurricane or tornado. Rather, they were telling what happened when their computers became infected by programs known as spyware.

The comments, part of a study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, show just how big a problem spyware has become to the nation's estimated 135 million Internet users. The project surveyed 2,000 people by phone in May and June. more..