Security experts predict that in a single y2k related computer theft, an American business will lose $1 billion

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Beware the millennium bug repair

The people hired to root out the Y2K bug could give themselves the keys to billions of corporate dollars

By Jim Miklaszewski NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, July 16  Security experts believe that computer fraud, linked directly to the so-called Year 2000 computer bug, will cost Americas big business big money. In fact, one firm predicts that in a single computer theft, some American business will lose $1 billion. It could potentially be the biggest corporate heist in world history.

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-- a (a@a.a), July 20, 1999

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