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DISH customer information hacked?!

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Alan Dana

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Sep 23, 2002, 10:11:58 PM9/23/02
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On 9/23/02 8:38 PM, in article d5gvouksvdvib0p11...@4ax.com,
"Jim" <J...@Jim.Jimcom> wrote:

> I just received an email from "DISH [cellacces...@hotmail.com]"
> with a subject of "Stop paying for dish BUT get all channels" and
> pointing to a website for a decoder board. My question is has the DISH
> customer database been hacked or do I just happen to have gotten this
> seemingly directed email? Has anyone else gotten it?

If you've ever posted to a dbs-related newsgroup, then that is
one way these people get email addresses.

Charles A. Kunz

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Sep 23, 2002, 9:55:43 PM9/23/02
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:38:15 -0700, Jim <J...@Jim.Jimcom> wrote:

>I just received an email from "DISH [cellacces...@hotmail.com]"
>with a subject of "Stop paying for dish BUT get all channels" and
>pointing to a website for a decoder board. My question is has the DISH
>customer database been hacked or do I just happen to have gotten this
>seemingly directed email? Has anyone else gotten it?

I got something similar today (don't pay for satellite, etc, etc). One of
many spam lists that everybody seems to get on.

Chuck

Dr. Chuck Network <http://www.drchuck.net/>

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