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ADP Says Hackers Targeted Clients in Phishing Scam
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:05:59 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Reuters. [snip] Automatic Data Processing, the payroll processor, on Friday said hackers stole business contact information about clients from a third-party database and were now sending bogus and potentially harmful e-mails. ADP said the information taken did not contain social security numbers, bank accounts, passwords or confidential data. ADP said its own systems were not attacked. However, the stolen e-mail addresses were being used to send bogus e-mails that look like they have a valid ADP address. The fictitious e-mails, which began appearing about 24 hours earlier on Thursday, have "malicious" attachments and are believed to have been sent to compromise data of the recipients, ADP said. [snip] More: http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSWNAS412220070915 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG7J2Tq1pz9mNUZTMRAkH9AKDElXxCOfCloAw+a0yjB6CdptjPXgCgsjTD RPE9DQI7PZ9oO1DHd5n3RXk= =doZY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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