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A series of SQL injection attacks on servers hosted by a third-party service provider has compromised the personal data of an unspecified number of individuals who had shopped on Major League Soccer's MLSgear.com Web site.
The compromised information included names, addresses, credit and debit card data, and MLSgear.com passwords, MLS President Mark Abbot said in a letter sent to affected individuals on Feb. 1. MLSgear.com is the soccer league's official online store.
The incident was first reported by PogoWasRight.org, a blog that trackes data breaches. It also posted a link to a notice that was sent by MLSgear.com to the office of New Hampshire's attorney general, informing the AG of the breach and saying that it affected 169 New Hampshire residents (Compare Data Leak Protection products).
The notification was signed on behalf of MLSgear.com by Michael Sapherstein, the league's deputy general counsel. The letter to the AG noted that a forensic audit conducted at the behest of Visa and MasterCard showed that the SQL injection attacks appear to have occurred between January and August of last year. The attacks were directed at third-party servers that were hosting the MLS customer data, Sapherstein said.
"We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to protection of our customers' personal information and consequently, we are terminating our relationship with that e-commerce provider," Sapherstein wrote.
He added that MLS had taken further steps to strengthen the "already stringent measures" that were in place for protecting customer data, but he didn't offer any details on what those steps were. He also said that the MLS had contacted the FBI about the breach and that it is working with Visa, MasterCard and Chase Paymentech, which processes its credit card transactions.
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