Hackers Hit Credit Card Information From Network Solutions for Months, WTF?
Today the Washington Post reports that Network Solutions on Friday said that more than a half a million…Yeah 1/2 of a million PLUS debit and credit card accounts have possibly been compromised over the past 3 months. WTF?!? Huh? 
Now here is the crazy stuff guys…About one half of its customers base was hacked! They discovered in early June that unknown attackers hacked into servers that provide e-commerce services such as Web site hosting and payment processing to at least 4,343 small to mid-size online stores
These hackers intercepted personal and financial information for people who made purchases at the stores hosted on those servers, Network Solutions spokeswoman Susan Wade said. The data was compromised from March 12th until June 8th. Man that is a long ass time and alot of numbers. I am floored by the amount of time this went unnoticed and the massive numbers of transactions this could account for.
Network Solutions is now working with the FBI and federal law enforcement to determine the cause of the "break-in". I hope they are also determining WHY they did not notice this going on for 3 months too. That really is a lot of transactions, ya think? WOW!
Network Solutions has begun notifying affected stores by e-mail and postal mail, and it is offering to notify the stores’ customers as well. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring customer notification when a data breach or loss jeopardizes the security of information, but the rules for complying with those laws differ from state to state.
"We feel terribly about it, to burden them with the notification process, which can be kind of tricky because there is no one federal data breach statute," Wade said.
Network Solutions also is offering to pay for 12 months of credit monitoring service through TransUnion for each consumer whose financial and personal data were compromised.
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