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Domain Registrar Exposes Customer Data
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:28:35 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/07/77238_HNregistrarexposed_1.html A database problem with a U.S. domain name registrar exposed sensitive financial and personal information relating to thousands of domain name registrations, a Dutch company said Friday. DiscountDomainRegistry.com, of New York, fixed the problem shortly after being notified Thursday, said Nico Vandendries, chief executive officer of Strongwood, a private investigation company based in the Netherlands. DiscountDomainRegistry.com Chief Executive Officer Alex Brecher said in an e-mail to the IDG News Service that the company is 100 percent positive customer data was not compromised. The "alleged vulnerability," he wrote, was patched within minutes after the company was contacted by Strongwood. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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