Apparently the website Tagged.com stole the identity of more than 60 million worldwide internet users by sending malicious e-mails that raided the recipients private accounts and stole contacts and other information.

One man among the many that are looking to sure the site for deceptive marketing and invasion of privacy is  Andrew Cuomo:

“This company stole the address books and identities of millions of people,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Consumers had their privacy invaded and were forced into the embarrassing position of having to apologize to all their email contacts for Tagged’s unethical - and illegal - behaviour.”

“Tagged acquired most of them fraudulently, sending unsuspecting recipients emails that urged them to view private photos posted by friends.”

A typical message would read something like: The message read: “(name of friend) sent you photos on Tagged.”

When a recipient would try and access a photo, they would be become a new member of the site. After they were members, recipients’ email address books would be lifted and the cycle would repeat.

Tagged is a California based company and claims to be the third-largest social networking site behind Facebook and MySpace. The site has 80 million registered users.

In response to user complaints, Tagged has temporarily suspended its’ online campaign.

Calls and emails to the company were not immediately returned for comments.

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This would be quite possibly one of the most embarrassing reasons to get fired. Well, I could think of a lot more that would be more embarrassing, but this is pretty bad…

The  former chief counsel at a multinational corporation was forced to resign after stealing food from his companies on site cafeteria. The Supreme Court of Kansas disciplined Troy H. Ellis after a video camera caught him stealing food.

According to the companies website, the company, which a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is the world’s largest producer of nylon and spandex, and it has locations in 24 countries.

“The Kansas Supreme Court’s April 17 decision issued a public censure against Ellis, who was forced to resign after the theft at Invista’s Wichita, Kansas, office came to light in 2007. The court found that he had violated the rules of professional responsibility by failing to “maintain his personal integrity” and by causing “actual injury” to the legal profession.”

Ellis said “I think I was just overworked.” Said Ellis, “I made a mistake.”

“Ellis could not be reached for comment. A spokeswoman for Invista (the food service company) declined to comment on the court decision or Ellis’ employment with the company. On the audio recording from the hearing, Ellis said that he had received the biggest promotion of his career just prior to committing the theft. He had worked for the company for six years. “

That was an awefully expensive bag of cheetos and sandwich.

During a five-day period in September 2007, Ellis eight times loaded a tray with food and left the cafeteria without paying. After cashiers at the cafeteria noticed his behavior, security employees installed a video camera that caught him in the act. The senior vice-president and general counsel of Koch Industries, confronted Ellis, who denied it until he was presented with video evidence.

The same day, Ellis sent Holden an e-mail that said he was “embarrassed and disgusted” with himself. “I lied. I stole. I violated the Code of Conduct,” he wrote.

His e-mail continued: “I have had to tell my parents, who are here, my wife and my children what I did. I received no sympathy and the same question — why? I have no good answer.”

That’s the way the Cheeto’s Crumble.

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