The hackers then used those login details to forward all mail coming into the account to a third party, or in some cases gathered information about contacts to use in other phishing scams.

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Each operating company maintained bank accounts with commercial third-party banks, including a main depository account and a disbursement account.

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Thousands of Twitter users have received emails warning their account has been compromised by a third party.

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It will be put in a escrow account, administered by an impartial, independent third party.

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In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent third party.

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YouTube has taken the post down and the account associated with it "due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement, " although it has been widely reposted on the video sharing site.

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With respect to the allegation of unauthorized trading, we found that (with the exception of a small trading account managed by the Claimants) the accounts were third-party discretionary accounts.

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Those testifying suggested that there are three big trends that Congress needs to take into account in updating the law: cloud computing (as we store more of our data on third party servers rather than at our homes and offices), the increasing use of mobile and smartphones (which so conveniently provide our location information), and the rise of social networking platforms.

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