1.   A hacker can come in and corrupt your data, or a hacker can steal it and sell it.

2.   Hackers steal information, they alter web sites.

3.   Index Stock has been slow to put lots of images into the library for fear computer hackers will steal them, Gidwani said.

4.   It takes a brilliant hacker to steal credit card numbers off the Internet.

5.   Next on my list are folks who avoid buying something over the Internet because they fear a hacker will steal their credit card information.

6.   This comes on the heels of security reports that Russian hackers have stolen thousands of American credit card numbers during ecommerce transactions off of the Internet.

7.   Computer hackers stole top secret codes permitting the location and identification of French and allied naval ships, including nuclear submarines, French weekly Le Canard Enchaine reported Wednesday.

8.   Hackers stole thousands of credit card numbers from SalesGate.com of Buffalo, N.Y., earlier this year.

9.   In the past year, hackers have stolen hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers from Internet retail sites.

10.   Many card numbers are stolen by hackers who break into databases of Web commerce sites.