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Privacy
If you are a COX Communications customer in the US, listen up.

For the last 5 months, COX has been printing our "private" PINs on our bills. If you picked your PIN, and it is not unique to COX, your PIN for other things (garage, credit cards, etc.) is now compromised, unless you still have (or did not shred) all the printed bills going back to Nov 07.

If you never selected a PIN with COX, they "randomly" chose a pin for you.

Read more here.
Posted on Friday, 11 April 2008 @ 01:44:04 UTC by mrrockford (1172 reads)
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