contributed by laney and abner
Several actors are asking themselves the quintessential Clash question -"should I stay or should I go?"- after private information in their Swiss bank accounts was revealed on the website of Credit Suisse's online banking service. Although the information revealed on Direct Net was in a transfer testing system area, 675 money transfer details were exposed for almost a week. In response to this PR nightmare, a spokesman for Credit Suisse declared, "You could never get into the account area of these people."

Reuters via Yahoo
ZDNet
Newsbytes via USA Today

contributed by weld pond
What's the connection between the two you ask? Dimitri, the Microsoft vandal from the Netherlands who has received a fair share of airtime as of recent for gaining access to Microsoft's servers, has promised the Register several Microsoft names and passwords in exchange for a phone call from pop star, Britney Spears. While it's certainly questionable whether or not this barter is in jest, the proposed exchange arose after Dimitri challenged an article the Register wrote that treated the second Microsoft break-in he claimed responsibility for as suspect.

The Register

contributed by harvest
A lawsuit originally filed and won in 1993 by six free-lance authors who argued that various media companies were violating copyrights by reproducing their work online without permission, may prove to be a short lived victory if publishing companies have anything to say about it. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal my major players players in the publishing world including the New York Times and Time Magazine. The latest rematch comes after a lower court ruling forced online publishers to obtain permission from free-lance artists before including their work in any database.

ZDNet

contributed by laney
Ingram Micro has a big problem with a certain message board on Yahoo that is dedicated to its company. The problem stems from a pending lawsuit that claims current and former Ingram employees are spilling the crown jewels on the controversial message board. Once again freedom of speech enters shaky territory.

LA Times