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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Publisher hit by new German data leak scandal

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    Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:36am EDT
    The logo of German publisher Axel Springer is pictured in front of the Company's head quarter in Berlin in this March 6, 2007 file photo. The personal details of thousands of people who placed classified advertisements in newspapers owned by Axel Springer made their way onto the Internet in the latest data leak scandal to hit Germany. A company spokeswoman confirmed October 18, 2008 a report in the magazine Der Spiegel that the names, addresses, mobile phone numbers and bank account details for customers of the free weekly papers could be viewed online before the leak was plugged last month. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/Files

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The personal details of thousands of people who placed classified advertisements in newspapers owned by Axel Springer made their way onto the Internet in the latest data leak scandal to hit Germany.

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    A company spokeswoman confirmed a report in the magazine Der Spiegel that the names, addresses, mobile phone numbers and bank account details for customers of the free weekly papers could be viewed online before the leak was plugged last month.

    The Springer spokeswoman called the incident -- caused by an outside programing contractor -- regrettable but added the company's larger newspapers were not affected.

    Deutsche Telekom had acknowledged this month that thieves hijacked sensitive data on millions of mobile phone customers in the company's second major security scandal this year.

    (Reporting by Kathrin Schich; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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