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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 11, March 11, 2001, Article 10BIBLIOFIND BREACHFrom The Standard, March 6, 2001 (http://www.thestandard.com/): "As Amazon's stock zoomed yesterday, news emerged of a serious security breach at one of its subsidiaries. Bibliofind.com, based in Massachusetts, revealed that a week ago it discovered that its system had been visited by intruders "monthly" since last October. The company announced that personal data on 98,000 of its customers, including credit-card numbers and addresses, had been compromised. Amazon bought Bibliofind's parent company, Exchange.com, in 1999. Bibliofind lists more than 20 million rare books and ephemera for sale by independent booksellers. News outlets gave the break-in story scant coverage yesterday and today. InternetNews was among the first to post on Monday, and its sister operation InternetNewsRadio led yesterday's newscast with a story on the security breach. Most of the press accounts leaned hard on a statement by an Amazon.com spokesman that no customer data at the parent company had been put at risk. CNN reported that when Bibliofind reopened for business on Monday, it was operating strictly as a matching service for buyers and sellers of rare books, not as a broker of monetary transactions." Wayne Homren, EditorContent presented in The E-Sylum is not necessarily researched or independently fact-checked, and views expressed do not necessarily represent those of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. This is a static archive page documenting the originally published content. Links were active at the time of publication but may no longer work. Check subsequent issues for corrections and commentary. The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. For more information please see our web site at http://www.coinbooks.org/ There is a membership application available on the web site. To join, print the application and return it with your check to the address printed on the application. Visit the Membership page. Those wishing to become new E-Sylum subscribers (or wishing to Unsubscribe) can go to the following web page link. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: E-Sylum Editor Copyright © 1998 - 2020 The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) |
