Credit cards sold on 'dark web' for over a year after Saint John parking system hacked

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cyber-security-hacking-attack-server-public-malware-municipal-1.4996713

By Connell Smith
CBC News
Jan 29, 2019

The City of Saint John is beefing up its security systems in the wake of a 
breathtaking security breach that left the public's credit card 
information wide open to hackers.

In December, the city's information technology staff learned that for the 
past 18 months, the municipal server for collecting parking ticket fines 
had been infected with a malware outbreak.

It gave hackers access to names, card numbers, card verification numbers, 
expiry dates and addresses for as many as 6,000 people, who paid their 
parking fines using credit cards online, in person or over the phone.

On Dec. 19, IT World, an online publication, reported the breach of the 
click2gov software, citing Saint John specifically in the article, even 
though 46 other municipalities across North America were affected.

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