Credit Card Data Over AOL IM
From the files of “too good to make up”, DavidJ.org reports a story from a couple of years ago about his credit card data being sent over AOL Instant Messenger [link to http://www.davidj.org/stories/222/Credit_Card_Information_Sent_Over_AOL_Instant_Messenger.html no longer works]. Essentially he bought some merchandise at a shot which didn’t have a point of sale terminal so the clerk was IMing all credit card data to a friend who had one who would then run the credit card info for him.
[Via NoticeBored - link http://www.noticebored.com/blog/2007/01/credit-card-data-sent-over-aol-im-link.html no longer works]