Monoprice.com Shuttered After Fraud Complaints

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/03/monoprice-com-shuttered-after-fraud-complaints/

Monoprice.com Shuttered After Fraud Complaints

Audio visual cabling giant monoprice.com shut down its Web site . possibly 
for the next couple of weeks . while it investigates the possible 
compromise of its customer credit and debit card information.

Vincent Lim, monoprice.com.s operations manager, said the company took the 
site offline around midnight on Friday, Mar. 5, after it received e-mails 
and phone calls from several customers complaining about fraudulent 
charges on their cards that they had used on monoprice.com.

.A few of our customers recently reported to us that information from 
credit cards they used on the Monoprice website had been misused,. Lim 
said. .We promptly began an investigation with the help of expert computer 
forensic investigators to determine if any card data had been stolen from 
our computers..

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