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Web services provider Network Solutions disclosed Friday that hackers broke into its servers and stole information on more than 573,000 debit and credit card accounts from its customers over the past three months.
The Herndon firm discovered in early June that unknown attackers hacked into servers that provide e-commerce services such as Web site hosting and payment processing to at least 4,343 small to mid-size online stores -- about half of its customer base.
Directly from Network Solutions [about.networksolutions.com]
Network Solutions identified unauthorized code on servers supporting some of our E-Commerce merchants’ websites. We promptly removed this code, and all of our E-Commerce servers are functioning properly. No servers supporting networksolutions.com were affected.
After conducting an analysis with the assistance of outside experts, we determined that the unauthorized code may have been used to transfer data on certain transactions for approximately 4,343 of our more than 10,000 merchant websites to servers outside the company. (...) The code may have captured transaction data from approximately 573,928 cardholders for certain periods this spring.
So it seems to be the E-Commerce packaged web hosting and not the domain registration part of Network Solutions which was affected, and it is the customers of the stores hosted by them whose personal information was stolen.
