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10/12/2025
2 min

I read in the ARA that the National Police A 19-year-old boy has been arrested in Igualada to steal "64 million pieces of personal data which he then resold online." There were "ID numbers, names and surnames, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and IBAN codes."

I think it's great that the full weight of the law falls on the offender. But once he's atoned for his sins, could you send him to me? Every criminal needs rehabilitation, to work honestly without being reminded of his past and his misdeeds. And in that sense, my fifty best friends and I have a job for him. No questions asked, no judgment. Because this 19-year-old has stolen bank cards, IDs, mobile phone numbers, and things I don't even know what they are, like IBANs. And no! You don't need to explain it to me in the comments of the online edition. I'll understand, but I won't remember it, and tomorrow I'll be just as clueless.

If he has stolen bank card numbers, it means that, if necessary, he can "know" what our card numbers are. And most importantly! He can know all our passwords: the one for logging into ARA (which was "potato," but evolved into PaTata1966 because it wasn't secure, and now who knows if it's Kiwi1234), the one for online banking, the one for buying second-hand bags, the one for knowing how HE He does it to sign electronically... If he's 19, he looks fine (corrector, please don't remove the pronoun) and, therefore, shouldn't make that crooked crustacean mouth when trying to guess the number at the ATM or even at the Abacus ticket window.

In Ancient Rome there was a slave called nomenclature which warned the owner of the names of those coming and going he encountered along the way. Well trodden. Thus, the 19-year-old from Igualada could be ours.hackerWe paid correctly (but you must tell us the Bizum password).

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