SECUR> Network Solutions Spills E-Mail Addresses

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Network Solutions Spills E-Mail Addresses
Company to Apologize; Customers Fear Spam

By David McGuire
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35318-2003Jan23.html>
Herndon-based Internet domain registrar Network Solutions Inc. said it will
apologize to tens of thousands of customers whose e-mail addresses the
company inadvertently released yesterday.

"A few thousand" Network Solutions customers received e-mail messages that
contained more than 85,000 e-mail addresses of other Network Solutions
customers, said spokesman Patrick Burns of VeriSign Inc., the parent
company of Network Solutions.

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