Hackers hit New York tour firm, access 110, 00 bank cards

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By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
December 20, 2010

Hackers have broken into the website of the New York tour company 
CitySights NY and stolen about 110,000 bank card numbers.

They broke in using a SQL Injection attack on the company's Web server, 
CitySights NY said in a Dec. 9 breach notification letter published by New 
Hampshire's attorney general. The company learned of the problem in late 
October, when, "a web programmer discovered [an] unauthorized script that 
appears to have been uploaded to the company's web server, which is 
believed to have compromised the security of the database on that server," 
the letter said.

CitySights NY believes that the SQL injection compromise occurred about a 
month earlier, on Sept. 26. In a SQL injection attack, hackers find ways 
to sneak real database commands into the server using the Web. They do 
this by adding specially crafted text into Web-based forms or search boxes 
that are used to query the back-end database.

This was one of the techniques used by Albert Gonzalez, who in March 
received the longest-ever U.S. federal sentence related to hacking the 
systems of Heartland Payment Systems, TJX and other companies.

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