BreachBytes

Yesterday we reported on a breach involving 4.2 million credit card numbers at an unnamed retailer. Turns out the retailer is Hannaford Bros. grocery stores. The AP is reporting on the story but has little detail beyond what was available yesterday. Although this is not a breach at the TJX level, the compromise of 4.2 million customer credit card numbers is nothing to take lightly.

As you may have read in “About BreachBytes” over the past 6 months we have been posting links to articles on the Packet Analytics web site that have to do in one way or another with Breaches and Incident Response. Since we have converted BreachBytes from a list of links on our web site to a full blog I thought we should post the links on the BreachBytes Blog.

SourceForge hacked, but not to worry(?)
“We played a game of cat and mouse with a “security enthusiast” from Europe yesterday. :)” 12/8/2007

DOE Lab Hacked
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy facility, said on Thursday that its computer network had been comprised by a spear-phishing attack. 12/7/2007

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