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Network Solutions E-Commerce Servers Hacked

Network Solutions E-Commerce Servers Hacked

573,000 credit and debit accounts compromised.

Network Solutions’ web servers have been hacked, resulting in 573,000 compromised credit and debit accounts, writes Brian Krebs of Washington Post.

The exposed data isn’t that of domain registration clients, but instead financial accounts of people who purchased something from a web site hosted with Network Solutions e-commerce package. In other words, it’s mostly clients of mom-and-pop stores on the web.

Network Solutions has offered to contact clients of each store on their behalf.

Since security is the number one priority of any e-commerce offering, this is sure to be a major blow to the domain registrar and hosting firm. Still, it’s likely more painful to the modest online businesses who may have lost the trust of their clients.

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