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$45, 582 telephone bill: Furniture company's security breach traced back to Somalia
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:15:52 -0600 (CST)
http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2010/mar/18/furniture-company-targeted/news/ By Richard Gould Hickory Daily Record March 18, 2010 It only took 12 hours for a hacker to run up $45,582 in telephone charges for a local furniture company. More than 10,000 minutes of phone calls were made from the phones at Sherrill Furniture on Highland Ave. NE from 9 p.m. on Friday, March 5 to 9 a.m. the following day. The company reported the security breach to police Tuesday and the preliminary investigation revealed that the phone calls originated in Somalia. Investigators know that calls were made to Austria, Bulgaria, France, Korea, and the Philippines. "We're not sure why the calls were made," said Capt. Thurman Whisnant of the Hickory Police Department. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/
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