E-mail typos result in stolen data

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By Kim Zetter, WIRED
September 9, 2011 8:17 a.m. EDT | Filed under: We

(WIRED) -- Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months.

The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions.

"Twenty gigs of data is a lot of data in six months of ......

and just a side note... similar things can happen when mistyping a URL. Often, the 'doppelganger' website looks all too similar to the real site and users can unwittingly give personal information to the bad guys.

 

[Casinomeister]

and just a side note... similar things can happen when mistyping a URL. Often, the 'doppelganger' website looks all too similar to the real site and users can unwittingly give personal information to the bad guys.

Case in point

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