Thursday, September 3, 2009

That Was Easy! (TJX/Heartland Breach)

The Last WatchDog's Byron Acohido has written an excellent post on how easily SoupNazi (Albert Gonzalez) was able to breach both TJX and Heartland.  Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty and will be sentenced  later this month...Here' s an excerpt:  





"Gonzalez and cohorts allegedly used mundane hacking techniques to extract some 94 million records from TJX, parent of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, over the course of at least eight months, and 130 million records from Heartland over 14 months.





“They stayed inside the network chucking stuff out of the window, and nobody noticed, much less tried to stop them,” says Lloyd."



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