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12th February 2000 Archive

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  • Chinese Govt. loosely implicated in credit info heist

    Not to be outdone by the celebrated DDoS attacker

    Keyword search outfit RealNames reports that it's been hacked by a malicious intruder who gained access to thousands of its customers' credit card details. The intruder compromised not only account numbers, but "names, addresses, expiry dates...in other words, all the information needed to use them to commit fraud," RealNames …

    Business 12 Feb 2000, 18:13