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Citigroup Hit Again by Security Breach
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:36:17 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Citigroup-Hit-Again-by-Security-Breach-505812/ Citigroup Hit Again by Security Breach By: Chris Preimesberger 2011-08-05 The company's Japanese credit card unit reported in a message to its user base that personal information of about 92,400 customers "has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally." Multinational financial service provider Citigroup appears to be snake-bitten by security problems, and not just through Web hacking. Eight weeks after a hacker cracked its credit card database, the company's credit card unit in Japan, Citi Card, reported in a message to its user base Aug. 5 that "certain personal information of about 92,400 customers has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally." [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () 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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