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title: Online payment risks
date: "2001-03-16T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1847
description: Be careful with online payments following reports of a Russian hacker breaching 40 companies, an attack on an Amazon subsidiary, and critical security vulnerabilities discovered in IBM’s Net.Commerce e-commerce platform.
keywords: [online payments, cybersecurity, e-commerce, hacking, ibm net.commerce, amazon, data breaches]
---

Better be a bit careful about online payments. [A Russian hacker](http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5069377.html) stole from 40 companies. [Amazon's subsidiary](http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5031805.html) was hit. And [IBM's Net.Commerce is buggy](http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5068115.html).