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fringe: Porn industry frets over security breach
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:44:12 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.dailynews.com/ci_7816784 By Lisa Friedman Washington Bureau LA Daily News 12/27/2007 WASHINGTON - A New Jersey company that helps run thousands of pornography Web sites acknowledged a major security breach Wednesday, sparking widespread concern in the adult-entertainment industry that consumers' personal data could be endangered. According to industry chat boards that have been buzzing about the problem, the violation so far appears to be limited to e-mail addresses, with an avalanche of spam e-mail hitting Web site customers' inboxes - including unique addresses created for joining specific porn sites. John Albright, owner of the Too Much Media Corp., said in a statement Wednesday that no credit-card information was affected by the October incident. Officials with both Visa and MasterCard said they were unaware Wednesday of any problems in connection with the company. "An investigation is under way as to the cause and level of the security breach," Albright said in the statement. "TMM intends to prosecute to the fullest extent possible anyone responsible for any breach of its servers and programs." [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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