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hmm I found this story pretty interesting
They dont have a clue who did it so the finger points at Hackers heh

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The prosecutors who bust criminals became victims of crime themselves last week when someone used their credit card to buy breast-enhancement drugs.

A computer hacker apparently stole the office credit-card number of the Johnson County Prosecutor�s Office in Franklin and used it to fraudulently order more than $700 in purchases.

Among the unauthorized merchandise billed to the prosecutor�s office Visa card: $103.38 in flowers from FTD, $292 in merchandise from Best Buy and $344.95 for a supply of Bloussant, an unregulated dietary supplement that claims to enlarge women�s breasts.

�My first reaction was utter shock,� Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner said. �For somebody to come right in and start stealing from our taxpayers, that�s pretty brazen. We hadn�t seen anything like that before.�

Hamner said his office manager, Michelle Murray, discovered the bogus purchases last week on the credit-card statement. The prosecutor�s office uses the card to charge office-supply purchases and travel and lodging expenses.

It appears the Visa card itself wasn�t stolen, since it was never missing. The card was newly issued, and the statement showed the three unauthorized charges had occurred before the first legitimate purchase made by prosecutor�s staff, he said.

�There was no way of knowing until we got the statement,� Hamner said. �The only thing we can figure out is, some hacker got into a list of newly issued credit cards and was making a series of small purchases, hoping it wouldn�t be noticed.�

Murray had the charges taken off the county�s credit-card bill and canceled the card, Hamner said.

A hacker could be operating anywhere, and Hamner has no reason to suspect the perpetrator is a Johnson County resident. He forwarded the fraud case to the county sheriff�s department. If identified, the suspect could be charged with credit-card fraud, a Class C felony punishable by up to eight years in prison, Hamner said.

Because the prosecutor�s office is itself the victim of the crime, Hamner would request a special prosecutor to bring the criminal charges, he said.

The herbal product Bloussant is sold online by New York-based Wellquest International. In its advertisements and TV infomercials, Bloussant is touted as increasing breast size and firmness. It�s marketed as an alternative to expensive breast-augmentation surgery.

Because Bloussant is a dietary supplement, not an FDA-approved drug, the manufacturer�s claims have not been scientifically evaluated. According to published reports, Bloussant�s ingredients are a veritable herb garden, including saw palmetto, damiana leaves, dandelion, thistle, wild yam, fennel seed and watercress.

Several male employees in the prosecutor�s office like to lift weights to build up their upper bodies, Hamner noted. But the thought of using Bloussant to increase their bust size had never occurred to them.

�That�s an easy way to do it; but we�d just as soon use the bench press,� he said.
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Its probably the flat-chested secretary... seriously

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do they think that hack credit card card user account is pice of cake ? 4 hacker !!!

they even don't how skilled hacker must be to do it !!!

Btw, really skilled hackers earn money in different way , couze stealing money form bank is sooner or later their's .END laugh


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Nua, if someone is a real HACKER, wouldn't have much probs doing that, and as of the stealing money from banks... c'mon give me a break !!!

But yeah, it could be the secretary too... coz of the fact that an "unregulated dietary supplement that claims to enlarge women�s breasts" was bought too.

heheheh... i wonder if that stuff really works.


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bP: Ask nicely, and I will show you a pic of my chest. I have only been using it a month, and I would put Roseanne to shame.

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I don't know how I feel about that. It's kind of funny actually ... I hope they catch the [censored] [censored].

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they prb will catch the he/she who stole the CC#.
Its just a matter of time = )


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of course 1c3.

oops and.. jon.. PLEASEE show me that pic lol..


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