http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/digital_river_hack/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 4th June 2010 E-commerce company Digital River exposed data belonging to almost 200,000 individuals after hackers executed a "highly unusual search command" against its secured servers, according to a news report. The breach came to light only after a 19-year-old New York man allegedly tried to sell the purloined data for as much as $500,000, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Friday. After Eric Porat made repeated attempts to persuade a company called Media Breakaway to buy the information, company officials alerted their counterparts at Digital River, the paper reported, citing court documents. A federal grand jury is investigating the matter with help from the FBI. The data contained names, email addresses, websites, and unique user-identification numbers for 198,398 individuals. It was originally gathered by affiliated marketing companies using software offered by Digital Rivers subsidiary Direct Response Technologies and stored on password-protected servers. It was stolen in late January using a "highly unusual" search command. The report didn't elaborate. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Sun Jun 06 2010 - 22:27:01 PDT
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