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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. Re:Am I Supposed to Care? by muon-catalyzed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Verisign is still the most important internet authority, they sell most of those SSL certificates that enable internet business. Also they manage .COM and .NET domain system. It has always been feared that if they get hacked the internet economy might collapse. Even now it is perhaps better just to play it down and figure out how to lower their influence..

  2. Used to work there when it happened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes they run a very important part of the internet.

    Yes are they filled to the brim with IT knowledge.

    However, when this event occurred it was I that rebuilt their constellation of DNS and TLD servers. Bull$hit they didn't know it happened. I used to work for Ken Silva.

    Bunch of liars.