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Data of 800, 000 Samsung Card holders may have been leaked
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:54:17 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110908001012 2011-09-08 20:34 Samsung Card Co., South Korea's leading card firm, is suspected of having come under an online security breach that could have leaked about 800,000 customers' personal data, sources said Thursday. Samsung Card has asked the police to investigate an employee regarding the suspected leakage of customer data, including their names and mobile phone numbers. Sources said Samsung Card submitted to the police a document in which an employee of the card firm confessed that about 800,000 customers' data might have been leaked. "But for now, the exact extent of the damage is unknown," said an official at Samsung Card. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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