Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyberattacks - sources

[Newsjock]

Source: Reuters

Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season late last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed.

Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target, according to the people familiar with the attacks. Those breaches have yet to come to light. Also, similar breaches may have occurred earlier last year.

The sources said that they involved retailers with outlets in malls, but declined to elaborate. They also said that while they suspect the perpetrators may be the same as those who launched the Target attack, they cannot be sure because they are still trying to find the culprits behind all of the attacks.

Law enforcement sources have said they suspect the ring leaders are from Eastern Europe, which is where most big cyber crime cases have been hatched over the past decade.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/12/us-target-databreach-retailers-idUSBREA0B01720140112

[Fred Sanders]

1. But the mighty, mighty Private Sector is to be evermore forgiven, government sector - never

[Warren Stupidity]

4. It is stunning, isn't it?

The disconnect between the ruling ethos that government can do no good and the market can do no wrong, and the reality is staggering.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Where's the NSA????

[bananas]

6. Good question. nt

[L0oniX]

10. Too busy listening in on grandma.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Thanks to an almost complete lack of regulation, standardization, general disinterest,

and the bipartisan 30 year neoliberal reaganomics clusterfuck, we have the crappiest electronic payment system in the developed world.

[PatrynXX]

5. Always told due to a stereotype

that because I'm a member of some adult sites thats where I get hacked. Ironically because of this stereotype the 3rd party billers are some of the most secure sites around. So yeah sorta find it funny (not) that normal places get hacked way easier.

[Skittles]

7. somewhere in that paragraph, someone needs their ass kicked

I AM WORKING ON IT; yes INDEED

[defacto7]

8. I took my 8 year old daughter to the Opera

some months ago. She saw a pair of earrings she likes at the concession for $5 bucks. Wonderful Dad that I am, I succumbed to her whim and bought it on a debt card. 2 days later I got a call from the bank asking if I had purchased $4000 worth of Chrystal in Arkansas. Well, duh no. I don't even have 1/8 that much in the account. The bank cancels it and replaces my card. It happens every day! Crazy world. Lousy systems.

[tomm2thumbs]

9. then 1 week later a box marked 'fragile' addressed to your daughter shows up from Arkansas - DOH!

just kiddin'

hahahah

[defacto7]

15. LOL

Hmmm... maybe????.........

Nah!

[Hestia]

12. Hmmm, sounds like someone needed some fresh stock for the store and will

probably resell those crystals for $8-$12,000.

[frazzled]

11. The digital world turns out to be fraught with as many problems ...

as benefits.

Makes you think about a return to carrying only good old-fashioned cash, and perhaps writing a few paper checks, doesn't it? We had our credit card breached once, and my sister and her husband have endured 5 separate incidents in the past 18 months alone (new cards were issued each time ... instead of the credit card industry actually coming up with more secure methods).

This is why we don't do our banking online. And why you won't get me to download one of those apps where you pay for things with via smart phone.

Once they figure out how to tame the lawlessness of the digital world, it may work. In the meantime, be careful.

[Hestia]

13. or use smart credit cards like in the rest of the world. They don't have these

problems because they did something about it over a decade ago. They have a chip on/in their cards rather than a magnetic strip.

My DH & I used these cards as a trial run - back in 2007 (I think) we were volunteers at the Plano Balloon Festival and we were put into the booth that took cash and loaded up smart cards. A company donated the cards and the machines to test how they worked. They were easy to use and no problems at all. Never saw the tech again.

[frazzled]

14. Yes, the credit card companies need to change their system

instead of just keeping on issuing new cards to people as the old ones get hacked. (I think I said this in my post.)