Hackers Break Into Computer-Security Firm's Customer Database

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Brian Krebs writes in The Washington Post:

[snip]

Guidance Software -- the leading provider of software used to diagnose hacker break-ins -- has itself been hacked, 
resulting in the exposure of financial and personal data connected to thousands of law enforcement officials and 
network-security professionals.

Guidance alerted customers to the incident in a letter sent last week, saying it discovered on Dec. 7 that hackers had 
broken into a company database and made off with approximately 3,800 customer credit card numbers. The Pasadena, 
Calif.-based company said the incident occurred sometime in November and that it is working with the U.S. Secret 
Service on a more detailed investigation.

[snip]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900928.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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