IP: FBI: Russia & Ukraine hackers have grabbed more than 1 million stolen credit card numbers

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>X-Sender: mom@mail.netmom.com
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:25:25 -0500
>To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
>From: Jean Armour Polly <mom@netmom.com>
>Subject: FBI: Russia & Ukraine hackers have grabbed more than 1 million
>  stolen credit card numbers
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/03/08/hacker.attacks/index.html
>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI officials announced Thursday that ongoing computer 
>hacking by organized criminal groups in Russia and the Ukraine have now 
>resulted in more than 1 million stolen credit card numbers, and officials 
>urged U.S. companies to take steps to combat the attacks.
>The FBI says the hacking operations have now attacked more than 40 U.S. 
>computer systems associated e-commerce or e-banking firms located in 20 
>states.
>The FBI says the Eastern European groups, after successfully hacking into 
>a company, then attempt to extort the company offering services to solve 
>the computer vulnerability.
><snip>
>"Despite previous advisories, many computer owners have not patched their 
>systems, allowing these kinds of attacks to continue, and prompting this 
>updated release of information," the FBI said.
>
>The groups have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows NT 
>operating systems. The vulnerabilities were originally reported and 
>addressed in Microsoft Security Bulletins as early as 1998.
>
>The FBI says Microsoft discovered the vulnerabilities and developed and 
>publicized patches to fix them. Computer users can download these patches 
>free of charge.
><snip>
>--
>
>Jean Armour Polly
>Author, The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages
>http://www.netmom.com/
>"Search engines are science, but directories are art."
>Net-mom says, "Have you labeled your site yet?"
>http://www.icra.org/



For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/