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Media Alert: Expert on Credit-Card Fraud Available to Comment on Russian Hacker Attacks; Over 1 Million Card Numbers Stolen, FBI Says

Business Wire, March 9, 2001

Businss/Technology Editors

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2001

Jeanne Capachin, an analyst with Meridien Research, can provide information and perspective for your coverage of this massive hacker attack on 40 US e-commerce sites by criminals in the Ukraine and Russia. The FBI issued a statement on the attacks yesterday.

With so many stolen card numbers in circulation, merchants must protect themselves against fraud, Capachin says. She has done extensive research on the sophisticated new technologies online merchants are using to detect and prevent card fraud.

Meridien Research of Newton, MA, provides analytical research services to users and providers of financial industry technology.

Contact Henry Stimpson at Parallax at 781-235-7025 to arrange an interview.

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