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posted by chromas on Friday April 06 2018, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the cyberhaxx dept.

[Updated (2018-04-06 22:18 UTC): According to a report at c|net, the breach also affected: Sears, Kmart, and now Best Buy, too. --martyb]

Delta Says Data Exposed for 'Several Hundred Thousand' Customers

Delta Air Lines Inc. said a cyber attack on a contractor potentially exposed the payment information of "several hundred thousand customers."

A data breach from Sept. 26 to Oct. 12 at a company called [24]7.ai allowed unauthorized access to customers' names, address, payment-card information, CVV numbers and expiration dates, Delta said in a statement Thursday. The vendor, which provides online chat services to Delta, notified the carrier and other clients last week.

[...] Delta said it wasn't yet able to say how many customers actually had their data stolen. The information was at risk if a customer entered data manually online to complete a payment transaction, Delta said. Data from customers who used a program called Delta Wallet weren't compromised.

Delta statement and response website.

Also at The Verge.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Virindi on Friday April 06 2018, @06:11PM

    by Virindi (3484) on Friday April 06 2018, @06:11PM (#663499)

    Isn't the whole nature of "checkbox security" like this to evolve into, "if you pay enough to come up with rationalizations you can do anything"?

    Like the building code, Joe Blow building his house gets dinged for completely safe deviations from the listed code requirements. But, SuperDeveloper can build a structure with crappy materials and as long as they have a "close relationship" with the inspector and the thing doesn't actually collapse and kill people, nobody cares.

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