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Network Solutions Suffers Large Data Breach

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Hackers have been siphoning off credit and debit card information from Network Solutions for over three months without anyone noticing. Don’t worry though, the company says the feel “terrible” about it…so that should fix everything. :rolleyes:

According to a report by the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog, the breach occurred sometime around March 12. Hackers inserted code on Network Solutions’ servers that sniffed customer credit card number and personal identifying information. The breach affected accountholders of Network Solutions domain registration and Web services, as well as numerous online retailers that utilize the company’s hosting and online payment services.
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In the past two months I've had both of my credit card numbers compromised. One by a third party processor and one supposedly by a restaurant. Thankfully, both of the card companies caught the fraudulent use before any charges were processed, but it was still a pita. I was really unhappy with one of the companies too because they didn't even bother to notify me, they just deactivated the card and we didn't find out until my wife tried to purchase something. At least the other one called right away.

Until there is some way to hold companies responsible for their crappy security or poor employee oversight, this is just going to continue. In the DC area a group of people got busted for a big time card theft ring at higher end restaurants and the wait staff that was paid to steal the cards has been rehired by other area restaurants. How friggen dumb can they get?
 
I don't give the staff my credit card. I always go up to the counter to pay. If that helps
 
Had my CC hacked from a retailers end during transactions, hope it was related to this.

So much for safe internet shopping....
 
Time to "lose your wallet" and get your numbers changed guys...AGAIN.
 
Crap. I've got to call customers. This is going to suck bigtime if their information has been compromised. :(
 
FUCK NETSOL.

Fuck them with a double fistful of subpoenas.

Sideways.

Twice.

It appears that nobody has learned one godamned thing since TJ Maxx/Marshalls payment transactions got compromised, and put them in a world of hurt.

My guess is that NetSol, and possibly other companies running payment transactions, couldn't care less about all of this. Perhaps they have most, if not all, of their staff outside of the country, where enforcement's going to be difficult, if not impossible to actually police.

/RANT.
 
I hate Network Solutions for their stupid idea of domain parking. I did a whois on Network Solution's site and then once you get a result, they automatically park the domain which they won't release it for a while. Weeks went by and I got pissed off and I called them up to stop parking the domain. They claim that they do this to "protect the customer". I was pretty pissed off because this is a form of advertisements to domain parkers out there that someone's interested in a certain domain.
 
Network Solutions doesn't park domains like that anymore. Not sure if they were the first to do that (other registrars did as well), but they all stopped pretty quick after the lashback.

And they have staff in the US, at least the support I ever call (VIP).

I'm not sure why we refresh our complaints about insecurity after a breach. I think any IT geek can tell you there are holes in every single organization out there that you could care about and any programmer can tell you how cobbled together most software is. It's just about keeping your head above water while not spending money on security. We should be constantly complaining about the state of digital security, not for only a few days after a big breach.

I say this without knowing how Netsol was broken into, but from the sound of it a server or two was rooted. I'm not associated with Netsol, but I am a corporate customer of theirs.

The problem is threefold:
1) lack of competent staff (seriously, we don't have good security staff everywhere to give quality advice to the mucky-mucks)
2) lack of funding (this includes costs to inject our opinions into misguided corporate projects)
3) economics/gambling/risk acceptance (it's not in most orgs' best interests to protect fully; just like your local law enforcement is not equipped to stamp out 100% of thefts, murder, and violent crimes; just because you can warn a company it has problems does not mean they *have* to fix every exotic attack vector)
 
Meh. It's NetSol.
They lose vast quantities of customer data to outsiders every 6 months.
 
The breach affected accountholders of Network Solutions domain registration and Web services, as well as numerous online retailers that utilize the company’s hosting and online payment services.
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I wonder if / when a list of affected companies will be made available.
 
Satyrist said:
FUCK NETSOL.

Fuck them with a double fistful of subpoenas.
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AMEN. Netsol sucks hard. I walked away from those asshats years ago. Their hosting was slow, their control panel portal was slow. The only thing not slow was the bullshit spam you had to wade through to get to the services you were actually paying for, which were hidden behind obtuse virtually impossible to navigate mazes of spam for services you didn't need or want.

NETSOL. Just say No Fucking Way.
 
I don't particularly understand how a company can be privy to that sort of vital information and not keep it on tighter lockdown than a virgin ass.
 
Are people still using their actual credit cards on internet sites? Use virtual credit cards, people, and from time to time (to deal with having to swipe your card at gas stations and other bricks/mortar) ask for a new account number.

Both Citi and BoA have virtual credit card systems. Works great.
 
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