Security firm Kaspersky gets hacked
It seems that the security firm Kaspersky needs to take its own advice. PC World reports:
A hacker gained access to security firm Kaspersky’s U.S. Website and hundreds of customer details after exploiting a SQL flaw on the site.
The hacker, known as Unu, also gained access to personal information of hundreds of Kaspersky customers, including user accounts, and activation codes. Details of the attack were posted on the Hackersblog forum.
This is not the first time a security firm has itself been hacked. It makes you wonder.
Update: It now seems that the security breach was less significant than it first appeared. ZDNet reports:
While a dump of the database tables was accessed, it doesn’t look like the attacker acquired anything of value. No credit card or financial account information was available for download. There was 2,500 e-mail addresses available in the database, but it appears at this time that they were not pulled from the system before the attacker announced the compromise.
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