"I stood to lose four years' worth of business contacts," said Dale Ficken, a Webcasting consultant, who was locked out of his account for two days.ĪOL spokesman Rich D'Amato said the company is investigating the incident. The company returned the UIN to the original owner today. In the latest security breach affecting the popular ICQ instant messaging service, a Web consultant says his account was held hostage this week by a hacker who took over his user number and tried to pry a ransom out of the deal.Īmerica Online, which purchased ICQ last year, confirmed that an unauthorized person this week made off with a long-time customer's password and user identification number (UIN).
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