Site Hacked, 38,000 Card Numbers Stolen |
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Posted: 11 Jun 2008 at 10:08pm |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7446871.stm
That's not very useful! How can others check for the same vulnerability if they don't say what it was? "Security Through Obscurity" doesn't work, if that's what they're worried about. The fundamental problem was that card details were stored. They don't even say if the database was encrypted (using serious encryption technology). If it was, it suggests the decryption keys were compromised, which leads to the question: what were the decryption keys doing on the server? All this is pure conjecture though, as we don't know. Another major point: if this occurred in January, why are we only now finding out about it?
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