Cyber-attack on Bell supplier highlights rising hacker threat

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bell-small-business-customer-information-breached-in-hacking-attack/article16653395/

By RITA TRICHUR
TELECOM REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Feb. 02 2014

Bell Canada is the latest big-name company to become ensnared in a hacking 
incident after announcing that a cyberattack on a third-party supplier 
compromised the confidential account information of more than 22,000 of 
its small business customers.

The Montreal-based telecommunications company said Sunday that 22,421 user 
names and passwords and five credit card numbers belonging to small 
business customers were posted on the Internet over the weekend after 
hackers targeted the the computer systems of an Ottawa-based supplier.

That unnamed company provided the affected Bell customers with an ordering 
application for some small-business services. Only some customers in 
Ontario and Quebec who used the app fell victim to the security breach.

Bell stressed that hackers never gained access to its own network and 
computer systems, adding that none of its residential, mobility or 
enterprise business customers were affected by the attack.

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