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Re: credit card hack, 175,000 cards
From: Allison Dolan <adolan () MIT EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:08:54 -0500
Actually, they don't know the scope yet. The Washington Post/Krebs item had the most detail of the stories I read. One extract "The transactional data crossing our platform, in terms of magnitude... is about 100 million transactions a month," Baldwin said. "At this point, though, we don't know the magnitude of what was grabbed." Allison F. Dolan Program Director, Personally Identifiable Information Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave NE49-3021 Cambridge MA 02139-4307 Phone: (617) 252-1461 http://mit.edu/infoprotect On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Di Fabio, Andrea wrote:
The number of cards is still unknown as per http://datalossdb.org http://datalossdb.org/incidents/1518-malicious-software-hack- compromises-unk nown-number-of-credit-cards-at-fifth-largest-credit-card-processor Andrea Di Fabio Information Security Officer High Performance Computing Technology Coordinator Norfolk State University Office of Information Technology Marie V. McDemmond Center for Applied Research, Rm 401F 555 Park Avenue, Suite 401 Norfolk, Virginia 23504 757-823-2896 Office 757-823-2128 Fax -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Theresa Semmens Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:44 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] credit card hack, 175,000 cards Pretty serious stuff... http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/Story?id=6695611&page=2 I wonder if their PCI certification was revoked? ;-) Theresa Semmens, CISA NDSU IT Security Officer PO Box 6050 North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58108 Phone: 701-231-5870 FAX: 701-231-8541 Theresa.Semmens () ndsu edu Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. -Albert Einstein
Current thread:
- credit card hack, 175,000 cards Theresa Semmens (Jan 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: credit card hack, 175,000 cards Di Fabio, Andrea (Jan 21)
- Re: credit card hack, 175,000 cards Allison Dolan (Jan 21)
- Re: credit card hack, 175,000 cards Ardoth Hassler (Jan 21)