Dutch developer built-in backdoors to SMB websites in order to steal personal information and money

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Personal data and identities stolen by the thousand by dodgy Dutch developer

A website developer in the Netherlands built backdoors into hundreds of small-business websites, exploiting the insecurities that he created in order to monitor traffic, and steal identities and ac...

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