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Skype hands 16-year-old’s personal information to IT company

Posted on November 6, 2012 by pogowasright.org

From nu.nl:

Skype illegally distributed a user’s personal information to a private company during a police investigation into Anonymous-sanctioned cyberattacks on PayPal.

It and several other payment companies were attacked out of retribution for blocking donations to Wikileaks in 2011.

Skype handed over the personal information of a 16-year-old to an IT firm, which later informed Dutch authorities.

Read more on nu.nl

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