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Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’::A stalker haphazardly posing as a cop demanded sensitive data from Verizon. Verizon complied, and the stalker drove to an address armed with a knife. 404 Media spoke to the victim.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Would a private individual who accidentally gave out an address, to someone posing as an authority, be criminally charged?