Date:
18 September 2007
Incident Type: Security Breach
WASC Threat Classification: unknown
Vertical Web Media, publisher of Internet Retailer magazine, suffered a
security breach and credit card information of readers had been stolen.
The Irony is that Internet Retailed magazine is covering the risks of
e-commerce.
While the actual technique used is not known, signs are that it was a
web hack as it was done by a distributed network of bots all over the
world and since the information stolen belonged to customers who paid
online.
The information stolen includes names, addresses, e-mail addresses,
phone numbers, credit card account numbers and card expiration dates.
The number of records stolen is unknown.
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