Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers 43
tsu doh nimh writes "A compromise at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information on more than 850,000 well-heeled customers, including Fortune 500 CEOs, lawmakers, and A-list celebrities. Krebsonsecurity.com writes about the break-in, which involved the theft of information on celebrities like Tom Hanks and LeBron James, as well as lawmakers such as the chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. The story also examines the potential value of this database for spies, drawing a connection between recent personalized malware attacks against Kevin Mandia, the CEO of incident response firm Mandiant. In an interview last month with Foreign Policy magazine, Mandia described receiving spear phishing attacks that spoofed receipts for recent limo rides; according to Krebs, the info for Mandia and two other Mandiant employees was in the stolen limo company database."
Good (Score:2, Funny)
Exposing the personal information of 30 million people wouldn't bother those in power. But those in power having their information hacked? Finally, we may see some protection of data--at least for those in power.
St Louis in the House!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, I have to take every chance I get to promote my hometown, and that's where this company is based.
A coworker for mine knows someone that used to work for the company, it sounds like they used a custom (homebrew) encryption scheme for the passwords. This could be incorrect, the guy hasn't worked there in a couple of years.
Anyway, we didn't win the World Series, but apparently we can give you Tom Hanks credit card info...
Re:Hold Them Responsible (Score:5, Funny)
I'll believe they're people when Texas executes one.