Hackers steal passwords from donors
A marketing software company serving nonprofits across the country including The American Red Cross said Tuesday that a hacker stole e-mail addresses and password information from its clients’ databases. Tad Druart, a spokesman for Austin-based Convio Inc., said the company has notified federal authorities of a data breach between Oct. 23 and Nov. 1. The hacker used an employee’s password to get at the data, Druart said. No Social Security numbers or bank account information was stolen, Druart said. He said the company immediately notified the 92 companies affected, though he would not name them, and it wasn’t known how much information was compromised.
Red Cross spokeswoman Stephanie Millian confirmed that roughly 278,000 e-mail addresses and a smaller number of passwords were taken from a Red Cross blood drive Web site that ran on Convio’s software. She said the Red Cross notified affected users Nov. 14. “We were fortunate in that this had to do with passwords and e-mail addresses and not anything more severe,” Millian said. Convio, which has filed papers to prepare for an initial public offering, has 1,200 clients. Only clients using a program called GetActive, which Convio acquired in March, were affected by the hacker, Druart said. It was the first time the company’s online security has been compromised, he added. I wouldn’t really care if they hacked unprotected database of some commercial firm but targeting organizations like Red Cross is little too much unethical…
Source: AP
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The thing is unless the user/password accounts were from the 1993s then they should encrypted. The hacker is going to have to brute force the whole password table if he wants all those passwords. 278K user/passwords are going to take YEARS to crack.
the crazy americans pay you to give blood, i cant see how that is any different to putting a price on one’s kidney… crazy, big up the NHS
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