5 Million Customers Compromised
By Ian Scott
In early December, CheckFree Corp. experienced a situation where their domain registration account was compromised and subsequently, DNS was hijacked. CheckFree offers a bill payment service through several banks, including Bank of America, many who use the service were diverted to a server located in the Ukraine and unwittingly gave up their usernames and passwords to the hijackers.
According to ITBusiness.ca, “CheckFree disclosed that it was warning many more customers than previously thought.” Apparently, up to 5 million customers may have been affected by the event.
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