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Criminals may have stolen more than half a million credit card numbers from merchant servers hosted by Networks Solutions, the Internet hosting company warned Friday.
In a letter sent to merchants who use its Ecommerce Hosting services, the company said that someone illegally installed software on company servers used handle credit card transactions initiated by 573,928 people between March 12 and June 8, 2009.
The code "may have been used to transfer data on certain transactions for approximately 4,343 of our more than 10,000 merchant Websites outside the company," Network Solutions said in the letter, signed by company chairman and CEO Roy Dunbar and sent to merchants on Friday.
Consumers who were possibly affected by the intrusion are also being notified by credit monitoring service TransUnion. They will get 12 months of free credit monitoring.
Customers of Network Solutions' other lines of business, such as its domain name registration or Web hosting services, were not affected by the incident, said Susan Wade, a company spokeswoman.
Law enforcement agencies are investigating, and so far the company has not heard of any credit card numbers being misused, following the incident.
The company has set up a Web site, where affected merchants and consumers can get more information on the breach.
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Online Merchants Upset that TransUnion will include URL address in lettersBy Tom Considine, CIPP on July 25, 2009, 6:19 pmOnline merchants who utilize Network Solutions Merchant Services are upset because they feel the consumer data breach notification letters should not include the...
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Where is the outrage over the PCI-DSSBy wrap2tyt on July 26, 2009, 1:28 pmThis is the very reason that the PCI-DSS is such a joke. PCI compliance varies from QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) to QSA because of the latitude that VISA/MasterCard...
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Read comments to thisBy Anon on July 27, 2009, 4:06 amRead comments to this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoMTo_CRqAE
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What?By wrap2tyt on July 27, 2009, 8:21 pmWhat the heck is this whining? You had a crappy job and quit, so WHAT does that have to do with this article? I stopped 2 minutes into your cyber crybaby act.
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This Has Happened BeforeBy Anonymous on August 20, 2009, 6:20 pmI received the notification letter from TransUnion yesterday that Network Solutions has had a security breach and that I was directly affected since I made an online...
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Affected customer, we didn't get a year of monitoringBy sadface on August 25, 2009, 3:31 pmThe letter makes it seem that we will get a year of pre-paid monitoring through "True Credit" services. Actually, it seems that the account is just an empty demo...
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