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New Hampshire Server Malware Incident: Credit Card Theft Threat

Calendar Mar 01, 2006 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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What do people who renew their driver's licenses, buy hard liquor or donate to a home for elderly and disabled veterans have in common? In New Hampshire, people who did any of those things within the past six months may have had their credit card numbers stolen because of computer security issues (see N.H. state server eyed in possible credit card data breach ).

No, there hasn't been a rash of hacker attacks or virus outbreaks. All three groups are potential victims of a single piece of malware found earlier this month on one state-owned server. How it got there is now under investigation. Why all those different victims ended up on one server is a different problem.

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