Security News > 2010 > December > Hackers hit New York tour firm, access 110,00 bank cards
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201822/Hackers_hit_New_York_tour_firm_access_110_00_bank_cards By Robert McMillan IDG News Service December 20, 2010 Hackers have broken into the website of the New York tour company CitySights NY and stolen about 110,000 bank card numbers. They broke in using a SQL Injection attack on the company's Web server, CitySights NY said in a Dec. 9 breach notification letter published by New Hampshire's attorney general. The company learned of the problem in late October, when, "a web programmer discovered [an] unauthorized script that appears to have been uploaded to the company's web server, which is believed to have compromised the security of the database on that server," the letter said. CitySights NY believes that the SQL injection compromise occurred about a month earlier, on Sept. 26. In a SQL injection attack, hackers find ways to sneak real database commands into the server using the Web. They do this by adding specially crafted text into Web-based forms or search boxes that are used to query the back-end database. This was one of the techniques used by Albert Gonzalez, who in March received the longest-ever U.S. federal sentence related to hacking the systems of Heartland Payment Systems, TJX and other companies. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/