Citigroup Hit Again by Security Breach

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Citigroup-Hit-Again-by-Security-Breach-505812/

Citigroup Hit Again by Security Breach
By: Chris Preimesberger
2011-08-05

The company's Japanese credit card unit reported in a message to its user 
base that personal information of about 92,400 customers "has allegedly 
been obtained and sold to a third party illegally."

Multinational financial service provider Citigroup appears to be 
snake-bitten by security problems, and not just through Web hacking.

Eight weeks after a hacker cracked its credit card database, the company's 
credit card unit in Japan, Citi Card, reported in a message to its user 
base Aug. 5 that "certain personal information of about 92,400 customers 
has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally."

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