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Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen

Posted by timothy on from the losing-the-moral-high-ground dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Verisign admitted it was hacked repeatedly last year and cannot pin down what data was stolen. It says it doesn't believe the Domain Name System servers were hacked but it cannot rule it out. Symantec, which bought its certificate business in 2010, says also that there was no evidence that system was affected. Verisign further admitted in an SEC filing that its security team failed to tell management about the attacks until 2011, despite moving to address the hacks."

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  1. What was stolen? by Kickasso · · Score: 5, Funny

    The letter "i", apparently.

    1. Re:What was stolen? by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Funny

      And twelve months, if we're to believe it was 2010 last year.

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  2. Re:weird by sycodon · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Verisign further admitted in an SEC filing that its security team informed management about the attacks immediately while at the same time moving to address the hacks, but that management ignored it because they didn't understand the implications until the lawyers took away their drinks and shrimp cocktails and made them understand"

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  3. Re:Who is "Versign"? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like the subject says: Who is "Versign"? /first post please?!?!?!

    It's the company formerly known as Verisign that has been hacked and had some characters stolen by hackers, including an 'i' in its name.

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