Court Orders Brazen Data Thieves to Stop

E-week is reporting that  New Jersey court has ordered a company charged with tricking Verizon Wireless workers into divulging sensitive customer information to halt its practice of acquiring and selling such data.

Superior Court Judge Harriet Derman granted a court order on Tuesday barring data provider Source Resources Inc. from acquiring, possessing or selling confidential information about Verizon's 45 million wireless customers. According to Verizon's claim, which was filed in early July, Source Resources was able to dupe the carrier's customer service representatives into supplying much of the data.  Read the entire story.