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	Geeks.com Hacked

MayTheClipBeWithYou

1-11-2008 5:33 PM

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MayTheClipBeWithYou says:

If you have an account there you may want to take a peek at this report.

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1-11-2008 6:48 PM

ericskiff

Crap. I'll have to look into this. I shop there extremely infrequently, mostly because the experience is clunky and the come off as inept, especially for a site the calls itself geeks.com. Sounds like they were.

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