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30,000 Dutch Credit card details stolen
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:37:27 -0600
http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/176842.html 30,000 Dutch Telsell-customer creditcard details stolen from Telsell computers, Telsell claims not their responsibility Customers of the television-sales organization TelSell can not only tele-shop while relaxing in their lazy chair, they also have a good chance to be robbed, while in that same chair. Earlier this year the details of over 30,000 creditcards have been stolen from Telsell’s computersystems. The details are from customers who in the past ordered Telsell products, including slimming belts, fitness equipment and figure-correction underwear. With the card details cybercriminals can relatively easy make illegal transfers, where the victims are served the bill. The Dutch company Telsell has been aware of this theft since 6 months, but never informed those customers at risk. The company decided take the credit card organization, looking at Telsell for recovery of the stolen amounts, to court. This has been discovered in procedural legal documents, obtained by the Telegraaf, the largest Dutch newspaper. According to these papers, last May hackers managed to break into, and compromize Telsell’s computersystems, copying over fifteenthousand Visa card details and around sixteenthousand Mastercard details. What is unusual is that Telsell decided not to fore-warn its possibly affected customers. If they had been warned in time, customers could have checked their creditcard accounts for irregularities. Anyone who does not notice illegitimate transfers in their own account statements timely, will not receive any financial compensation. The even more unsual explanation by Telsell is: “It is not our resonsibility to warn our customers” Yesterday the company Telsell refused to comment. Also it is not clear whether sufficient measures have been taken to avoid a repeat of the computer systems compromize. Original article in Dutch http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/2622436/Telsell-klanten_dupe_roof.html?p=3,1 _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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