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Best Buy Suffers Second Email Breach
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 04:37:48 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/229402808/best-buy-suffers-second-email-breach.html Best Buy Suffers Second Email Breach Epsilon hack victim's customer emails exposed yet again -- via a different vendor May 04, 2011 | 05:05 PM By Kelly Jackson Higgins Dark Reading Best Buy, which was among the 100 or so companies hit in the recent Epsilon breach, is responding to a second consecutive breach at the hands of one of its vendors. The big-box electronics retailer found on April 22 that email addresses of some of its customers had been "accessed without authorization" via one of its vendors, according to a Best Buy spokesman, who declined to name the vendor. Best Buy had already parted ways with that provider prior to the discovery of the breach, he said, due to a "strategic business decision." Best Buy would not elaborate on how many customer emails were stolen or provide any details about the attack. It's unclear whether the latest breach was in any way connected to the Epsilon incident. "I don't know that they are related. But it's an interesting coincidence time-wise," says Dave Marcus, director of McAfee Labs security research communications. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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