Anti-cyber-attack biz Staminus is cyber-attacked, mocked by card-leaking tormentors Staminus Communications – a US web hosting biz that specializes in protecting sites from distributed denial-of-service attacks – is recovering after hackers ransacked its servers and leaked customer credit card numbers. Its systems fell over for about 20 hours up until the early hours of Friday morning, UK time, or late at …
Ha Ha Ha Ha.......
These clueless snake-oil salesmen didn't realise that their systems had been compromised for almost 24 hours. They stored user names, passwords and Credit Card details as plain text. What part of "totally, criminally incompetent" don't they accept?
Dazzz may be right - their (l)users may well sue them. You can be sure that they'll go out of business well before the writ lands on their doormat!
I consider all the "free credit monitoring" offers sent me by hacked companies/government entities as a bad joke. Someone lost my information and now they suggest sharing this (better yet because updated) information with another business I'd rather have nothing to do with. I guess only to increase the odds of another data leak and make it harder to track to source.
So if my details are compromised by different companies and each offers a year of "credit monitoring", will those run concurrently or consecutively? I wonder if I could take the cash for the monitoring from the last 4 instead? There's a business model forming here....
No, it's not important to note at all. The customers would already know if they handed that information over. That's a red herring to put a little "upper" at the end of the bad news in a sad attempt to distract from the really serious loss of credit card, name and address data.
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