Network Solutions Suffers Massive Data Breach

dasButcher writes "Network Solutions, the domain registration and hosting service company, suffered a massive security breach that lasted three months and exposed tens of thousands of credit card numbers of its customers and of the businesses that use its hosting and online payment processing service. The company is just beginning the victim notification process. 'There is no information on how the code was planted on the sites. While examination of the code shows that it had the ability to ship data off to a third party, and Network Solutions believes that it did just that, the exact code is not available for public review. There is also no public information as to where the data believed to be stolen was sent.'"

Comments

Re:Big companies

[Antique Geekmeister]

Oh, dear. Pleae excuse that run-on paragraph: I occasionally forget to hit the 'Plain Old Text' option when I write.

Shashib

[shashib]

I work for Network Solutions and we understand that this is a difficult time and we are already taking proactive steps to ease the burden on merchants that may have been impacted by this issue by providing assistance with their customers that may have been impacted. To help affected folks.find information quickly we have setup a website http://www.careandprotect.com./ Thanks, Shashi B

Re:DNSSEC

[Lennie]

Good thing they are going to handle the root signing process for DNSSEC as we can all see, they know what they are doing.