[83028] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hacker cracks ESPN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Fri Jul 11 09:46:58 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 08:01:28 EDT
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970710200813.03f1f290@mail.teleport.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> writes:
> Two separate but chilling messages were sent to people who
> purchased items online from ESPNet or the NBA Store this
> week. The first anonymous E-mail told shoppers they had
> been the victims of careless security and that their
> credit-card numbers and addresses were easily available.
>
> The second message, sent by E-mail and regular mail by the
> World Wide Web sites' host, Starwave Corp., alerted 2,397
> online shoppers that their credit-card information might have
> been misappropriated.
Were these two sites running C2Net's "Stronghold"?
---
<a href="mailto:dlv@bwalk.dm.com">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
