From an article about the recent OfficeMax security breach…
Oakland resident Alicia Vagts, 34, illustrates this possibility. She discovered in October that someone in Estonia was running up about $2,500 in fraudulent charges on her Washington Mutual debit card.
"I barely knew where Estonia was," she said. (It's on the Baltic Sea, right next to Russia.)
I read an article recently that said Estonia is one of the most internet savvy countries in Europe. Skype is an Estonian invention for free long distance over the internet. E-stonia!
It’s true. I’ve been there.
I was helping my co-worker, Jenny, again with her computer which has been having incredibly slow modem speeds lately. I don’t know if it had anything to do with it, but she had been infected with some kind of malware that added a menu to certain programs (I first noticed it in Control Panels where I saw menus for Gambling, Internet, Pharmacy, Finance, Insurance, Adult; those aren’t usual Microsoft menus). Anyway, it included a Remove button and when you clicked it, it took you to thequicklink dot com. I did a WHOIS on this and it is an Estonian registry (but no one I knew).