Get ready for even more scripkiddies stolen cc signups for ISP and other services.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:17:27 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> To: Ip ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Subject: [IP] the mother of all credit card data thefts? Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Date: June 17, 2005 6:38:57 PM EDT To: dave@farber.net Subject: the mother of all credit card data thefts? MasterCard reported that over 40,000,000 credit card numbers, less than half of which are MasterCards, may have been stolen. CardSystems Solutions, which processes transactions for merchants and banks, was infected with a script that that targeted certain kinds of transactions. That is, this wasn't the usual carelessness, it was a targeted attack by a sophisticated adversary. The MasterCard statement is at http://www.mastercardinternational.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.cgi?id=1038 . --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as william@elan.net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/