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47717768
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Phone hackers dial and redial to steal billions

SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman’s architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March. But neither Mr. Foreman nor anyone else at his seven-person company was in the office at the time. »finance.yahoo.com/news/p ··· 295.html

Snowy
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·Hawaiian Telcom
·Clearwire Wireless
·Time Warner Cable

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"The law is not much help, because no regulations require carriers to reimburse customers for fraud the way credit card companies must."

There's nothing in common re the hack between a phone system vs a credit/debit card so it shouldn't be any surprise their treated differently.

PBX etc... abuse is due to weak credentials which is within the complete control of the user where credit/debit card abuse is often completely out of the users control.