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Redbox Shows Businesses How To Properly Handle A Data Breach

Redbox rents DVD movies via vending machine in drugstores and supermarkets throughout the country, and on Friday they announced that they'd found credit card skimmers attached to three of their kiosks. What's surprising is that they 'fessed up so quickly, and in a highly public manner—they've got the text "SECURITY ALERT" at the top and bottom of their website, and the email they sent to their members is detailed, forthright, and helpful, and reposted in its entirety—along with photos of sample card skimmers—on their site. Attempts at identity theft no longer surprise us, but a competent handling of the issue by a company is pretty amazing. More »

9:42 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Chris Walters
10,720 views, 57 comments

Latest by Alan Thomas: To reinforce the earlier point: The headline of this article is incorrect and irresponsible. This series of incidents does not represent a RedBox data breach in any possible meaning of the phrase. That would be like calling a fake red kettle more »

privacy

Are You Sure You Want To Add That Facebook App?

Gregory writes in to point out that Facebook does a lousy job of monitoring the development of its third-party Platform applications—and in fact many of them are written so badly that they can be easily hacked. The examples he cites, which are listed in the winter issue of the hacker magazine 2600, are all fairly mild stunts like spoofing user IDs, changing the moods of another user, and re-routing gifts, "but this information could be used to mount large scale social engineering attacks if automated and coupled with other information." To illustrate how easy it is to change another user's settings, he pointed us to a YouTube example of how to change another users "mood" via the Mood app. More »

9:47 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Chris Walters
4,570 views, 11 comments

Latest by nidolke: If you sign up for any of their stupid applications, I can't feel bad when you get hacked. more »

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How To Hack A RFID Credit Card For $8

Today's episode of BoingBoingTV demonstrates how an $8 credit card reader bought off eBay can be used to read your credit card numbers while they're still inside your wallet. More »

12:25 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Meg Marco
7,020 views, 56 comments

id theft

Other Stores May Be Just As Vulnurable To Hacking As TJ Maxx

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the most likely scenario for how the hackers stole an estimated 200 million card numbers is as simple as a person with a laptop breaking into the wifi network of a store:
The biggest known theft of credit-card numbers in history began two summers ago outside a Marshalls discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minn.
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11:39 AM on Thu May 10 2007
By Meg Marco
2,085 views, 17 comments

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Hacker Taunts Americans For Letting Him Steal Their Identities

This could be you. More »
the russian connection

Debit Card Hacker Interviewed

Small World's Bazooka Joe interviews "John Dillinger," a debit card hacker who participated in the infamous "Russian Connection" ATM hack scandal. He discusses how he and others hacked millions of debit card accounts and why the story never makes the mainstream news. More »

8:05 PM on Mon Jun 5 2006
By popkin
328 views, 9 comments