Hacking Database largest U.S. online retailer Target Corp. could be carried out by Russian hackers. As a result of a planned attack were stolen personal data 110 million customers. According to U.S. authorities, simultaneously attacked kibermoshennikov network underwent expensive stores Neiman Marcus and several other retailers.
The fact that the largest in U.S. history, a cyberattack could be organized by Russian hackers, reported the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. When closed, the report sent out on Thursday owners affected companies noted that the bulk of the virus program that has penetrated into the databases of the largest retail U.S. retailers, was written “Russian programmer,” and in the notes to the code found “words in Russian.” One of them, U.S. experts have decided to use to refer to malware, so that the documents secret services new virus is officially called “kartohu».
«We are faced with a unique situation for the first time to witness such a scale cyber attack – said senior vice president of iSIGHT Partners Tiffany Jones. – And the creators of the program have demonstrated the highest level of training and the ability to use the latest software codes” .
In computer security experts to investigate the company’s iSIGHT were attracted specialists from the Ministry of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service and Government Center analysis and dissemination of financial information.
As investigators believe, hacking database largest online retailer Target, 1921 uniting store in the U.S. and Canada, took place on November 27 last year. For more than two weeks, until December 15, cyberhawks collected personal data of customers. In addition to PIN-codes, credit and debit cards hackers were able to access information about the home address, telephone number and e-mail clients. Just among the victims turned out more than 110 million people, including 70 million Internet customers.
said Tiffany Jones, some parts of the virus program first appeared on the black market in the spring of 2013. The “kartohu” could not be detected by any of the existing anti-virus software. “Until such attack methods have never been used in cyber attacks, – she said. – Virus secretly controls everything database management system hides the information from the search and anti-virus systems, and then sends the data” owner “».
According to experts of iSIGHT, the attack may have been affected by hackers and other retailers. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security checks start mass retailers, offering store owners to immediately report all suspicious transactions.
Coincidentally, yesterday announced a new chain of stores breaking class “lux» Neiman Marcus. CEO Karen Katz was forced to apologize to bring customers in connection with the “mass theft of credit card data in the Christmas holidays.” Specialists, however, have not been able to find a connection between the burglary bases Neiman Marcus Group and Target Corp.
Damages scams yet to be determined, however the chain stores have already offered to all victims free credit monitoring services for a year, and all the major U.S. banks have announced that they are ready to reissue cards free their customers.
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