Hackers broke into Zappos, the online shoe store, and stole personal information on an estimated 24 million Zappos customers. While the thieves did not get full credit card numbers, they go enough information to send very convincing fishing e-mails to Zappos customers. The hackers also got encrypted passwords. Since many people use the same password all over the Internet, the potential for the hackers to break the password codes and used them is troubling. See Data Plunderers Run Off With Zappos Customer Info.
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