He said there were two types of computer accounts that could have been affected.
Part of what has made WikiLeaks so much more effective than traditional hacking efforts, after all, is that whistleblowers with privileged accounts within computer networks are a far more efficient source of embarrassing data than hacking techniques such as random searches of filesharing networks.
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Brent Moulton, who manages the national accounts at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, told the Financial Times that the update was the biggest since computer software was added to the accounts in 1999.
The ability to use these accounts for home computer purchases is a reason to consider opening one.
Older Lady with Computer We watch over her accounts to be sure no one is messing with her balances and that she is not making mistakes.
Always log out of your social media accounts when leaving a computer, especially a public or school computer.
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You can take money out of these tax-favored accounts to buy any computer, peripheral, or educational software but not games (Microsoft Word, for example, but not Halo).
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Citigroup has begun notifying some 3.9 million U.S. customers that computer tapes containing information about their accounts have been lost by United Parcel Service (nyse: UPS - news - people ) while in transit to a credit bureau.
Industry watchers often point to the 2010 United-Continental union as an example, during which passenger experience suffered when reservations and frequent flier accounts were lost during the computer system integration.
Two other bank bosses have waived their bonuses this year follow scandals: Antony Jenkins following Barclays' admission of its involvement in rigging the multi-trillion-dollar Libor interest rate and Royal Bank of Scotland's Stephen Hester after a massive computer failure caused payments into customers' accounts to be delayed by several days.
So he's preparing a list for his heirs, including his accounts, safe combinations, even computer passwords.
If that really concerns you, cancel your online accounts and step away from your computer.
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The country accounts for 20% of personal computer and handset demand and the Chinese consumer, Credit Suisse says, is very price sensitive.
Its 70, 000 customers, mainly middle-aged and affluent, can run their accounts by telephone or from a personal computer.
PLC, Stephen Hester, has already given up his bonus, for the second year running, after a computer problem left millions of customers without access to their accounts.
Those details could be transferred by computer to other credit cards, whose owners could have their accounts accessed and cash taken.
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Nadeem Kashmiri, a data operator, was charged with hacking into the computer system which allegedly led to money being stolen from customer accounts.
For ESAs, the computer provision came in as part of the sweetening of these accounts in the 2001 Bush tax cuts package, set to expire Dec. 31.
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According to published accounts of the affair, Broadwell used the same computer to send harassing e-mails to a woman who sent them to a friend at the F.
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The rules have changed this year for withdrawing money from 529 college savings plan to buy a computer (or Apple iPad), but not from Coverdell education savings accounts.
It already has a deal with Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) to resell Clariion--Dell accounts for one-third of Clariion sales--and will expand that to other products in other geographic areas.
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