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Security breach affects card users tied to Wilderness arcade
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:59:19 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.jsonline.com/business/129673573.html By Rick Romell Journal Sentinel Sept. 12, 2011 A security breach exposed as many as 40,000 credit or debit cards used in arcades at the Wilderness Waterpark Resort near Wisconsin Dells and a companion resort in Tennessee, and a handful appear to have been affected, an arcade supplier said Monday. The card processing system of Vacationland Vendors Inc., a Wisconsin Dells firm that supplies arcade games and installs vending machines, was breached on March 22, and possibly before that, a spokesman said. The attack by hackers exposed information on cards used in the arcades in the Wilderness resorts in Lake Delton and in Sevierville, Tenn., east of Knoxville. Other transactions at the resorts, including reservations and purchases at restaurants and shops, were not involved. While 40,000 cards were exposed, Vacationland Vendors has received reports of irregular activity on less than 20 of the accounts, the spokesman said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () 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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