500,000 cards exposed in Network Solutions breach
Hosting company Network Solutions has recently experienced a security breach in an ecommerce services system which resulted in exposing details for a whooping number of over 500,000 credit and debit cards. The data security mishap is the work of hackers penetrated the system and installed software that diverted transactions to a rogue server.
The malicious software was active March 12 to June 8 and affected transactions Network Solutions processed on behalf of over 4,000 merchant websites of small businesses, spokeswoman Susan Wade said to the Register. Although discovered in early June, Network Solutions waited for about a month to disclose the breach, the reason stated being that it took until July 13 for forensics investigators to analyze and understand how the rogue code worked.
Network Solutions has offered to foot the bill for notifying affected cardholders so those costs don’t have to be born by the merchants who used the company’s e-commerce service. [...]The company is also making 12 months of fraud-monitoring services available free of charge to cardholders whose information was exposed. Affected merchants and cardholders can enroll by visiting this site, which walks them through the process.
July 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Hi ,
I work for Network Solutions and apreciate your posting. The Network Solutions team across all levels within the organization has been working round the clock to promptly respond to customer concerns at http://www.careandprotect.com.
Thanks,
Shashi