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Whoever thought that the schuelerVZ.net - data breach had been the biggest impact has probably never heard of the website lockerz.com heard. There, users can earn by simply logging, logging in and answering questions virtual money. This can redeem against various prizes, such as a 300 € Amazon.de - voucher, a laptop or other high-value items. But the operators have very different intentions than was previously suspected. That was the former market researcher, that the company attempted after the domain has been known worldwide to sell them to big companies. Far from it - because the operators are in a very annd this magnitude. After all, who wants to have a price, there must specify all their personal data, including street, name, age, city and even phone number. But not enough logs the website apparently even IP addresses, and places them together with the data onto a huge database.
who was a fan of the site so far, probably never had the opportunity to redeem a prize. Because the shop is deserted for weeks. "Sold out" works with almost any valuable articles only wallpapers and comparable worthless exists.
But since this morning the site is already in the excavation phase. Earned virtual money is worthless become. The website has written in her blog that the domain will be sold in less than a week to download the UseNext portal. What happens with the data of over 3 million users, do not betray.
The leadership of the Internet giant Google the other hand, took the floor. For example, the Google crawler a set of sample accounts have found only a few minutes after registering with various advertisers and newsletters. Market Research estimate the value of the data on over 16 million U.S. dollars. In particular, the existence of telephone numbers, residential real data and personal interests that lockerz.com queried by so-called "Dailies" interest, the advertising companies.
who now wonders why the police ask nothing against the misuse of data is in the thought process has completely wrong. To market the data may well have the website and the FBI, which is responsible for managing the global Discovery Data Bank, reached an agreement. Thus, the IP addresses of the users along with their address have already been transferred. Now, if a user clicks on an x-any other web site are alleged suspects, so it can easily be determined within seconds. Internet crime can be advanced to the bar for years. Even pirates need to take heed now, should get its IP related to illegal activity is suspected, because the Federal Criminal Police Office has unrestricted access to the database.
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