Federal prosecutors indicted Gregory Kopiloff yesterday, alleging that he used Limewire peer-to-peer filing sharing software to steal financial information to create credit-card and bank-accounts using other people's identities. David Bowermaster, Indictment here marks "new age" of ID theft, Seattle Times, Sept. 7, 2007.
Prosecutors say that this use of peer-to-peer filing sharing is becoming common. They even had a security consultant at their news conference show how a stream of P2P searches includes requests for terms like "medical billing" and "password" as well as for pornography and music.
The Times article online links to the indictment.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Feds Indict Peer-to-Peer Identity Thief
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