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2003; average losses from information theft rose to $355,552 from
$168,529. The respondents suffered total losses in the two categories
of about $62 million last year. While many cyberextortionists and
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street.
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without the subsequent involvement of local and federal law
enforcement officials, Mr. Tereshchuk would not have been captured.
"It's about grinding out a lot of data; it's not about intuition -
though years of working clinically with patients is certainly
important," Dr. Shaw said. "The Myron case involved a fair amount of
case management because we needed to keep him talking, we needed to
keep him engaged, so we could set him up for an arrest."