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The vulnerabilities could have let malicious users masquerade as agency officials, potentially misleading researchers, contractors and others.

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Mira Norian / Investopedia A bank identification number (BIN) is the initial set of four to ...