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 PlayStation Network Users Reporting Credit Card Fraud PSN boasts 77 million users worldwide and not all of them have registered card details on the free service so it's hard to know whether the frauds are anything other than coincidental. Share:   |  Newest Internet Meme: Royal Wedding Flower Girl Upstages Kate and Wills Let this be a lesson to celebrities and publicity hounds everywhere. Share: | Verizon to Warn Cellphone Buyers on Tracking Data Verizon will put a peel-off sticker on the screen of cellphones and also advise users to be careful which apps they install if they wish to avoid location information being shared with third parties. Share: | U.S.Homeland Security Investigates PlayStation Breach As the fallout from the PlayStation Network data breach continues, U.S. Department of Homeland Security has now gotten involved. Share: | AOL's War on Web Journalism: TechCrunch Edition Analysis: Ethics, schmethics! 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