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eBay's Korean Unit Apologizes for Hacking Incident
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:16:21 +0000 (UTC)
Courtesy of W.K. http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5518&Itemid=2 eBay's Korean Unit Apologizes for Hacking Incident Written by T_Korea Thursday, 17 April 2008 U.S. auction giant eBay's Korean unit apologized Thursday for a hacking incident that lead to leaks of private information of more than 10 million users of its service. Park Joo-man, president of Internet Auction, said in an e-mail apology sent to affected users that the hacking of its website in early February lead to the leaking of information of some 10,810,000 users as of its latest tally with the police. Internet Auction is controlled by the San Jose, California-based eBay. "We deeply apologize for causing concern resulting from the hacking crime," Park said. The company, after a joint investigation with the police, said that more than 90 percent of the information outflow was of names, IDs and resident registration numbers. Credit card and passwords were not likely included in the leak, it added. The company and the police allege that a user with the ID named "fuckkr" may have hacked into the company's website using a type of worm via an overseas IP address. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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