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Hackers swipe seed company's customers' data
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:56:49 -0500
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/3676190.html WINSLOW -- The Web site of Johnny's Selected Seeds has been hacked by an intruder, resulting in the theft of thousands of private records and credit card numbers, a company official said Friday. Bruce Harrington, the company's director of sales and marketing, said 11,500 credit card accounts were stolen electronically in February. "This is a violation, this is a criminal act and it's on us," Harrington said. "We are a victim here; it wasn't like we had credit card information ready for the taking." [...] Of the total number of accounts that were breached, about 20 of the credit cards were used fraudulently, Harrington said. He said the last known Internet Service Provider to register action involving the Johnny's case was somewhere in the United Kingdom. Harrington said the security system was hacked in a very sophisticated, methodical way. "Essentially what happened is that criminals gained access to our internal systems and gathered enough information to allow them to then gain access to our Web site," Harrington said. The company's "server farm" in Kentucky was the target, he said. [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 149 million compromised records in 592 incidents over 7 years.
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