p2pnet.net News:- Apple iPods are the music player of choice for some scam artists.

A recruitment agency found much of its client database had been copied to an iPods’s memory and used to defraud the firm, says the Guardian Unlimited.

“Anti-fraud experts warned yesterday that the machines, along with other music players, that boast hard drives with up to 20Gbytes of memory, could become widely used by employees to fool security officials and breach data security rules,” it says, going on:

“Staff who have been given the sack or missed out on promotions are the most likely to turn to this type of fraud. They may be supported by criminal gangs who use employees as insiders to extract information, but in these cases they are more likely to be disgruntled employees who want to punish their employer.”

iPods aren’t a new toy, “but whereas corporates still don’t know much about their capabilities, individuals do,” Paul Carratu, president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, is quoted as saying.

“In a recent case, after we got a court order, we found the data the employer said was missing on a former employee’s iPod.”

See:-
Guardian Unlimited – Fraudsters use iPods to steal company information, June 14, 2005

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