Network Solutions had information from 575,000 credit card stolen

by kuuva | July 28, 2009 at 12:36 am

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During routine maintenance of a secure credit card payment servers, malicious code was discovered. It appears that transactions between March 12 to June 8th, credit card number, address and name were exposed.

Network Solutions is investigating a breach on its servers that may have led to the theft of credit card data of 573,928 people who made purchases on Web sites hosted by the company.

Networks Solutions notified 4,343 of its nearly 10,000 e-commerce merchant customers on Friday about the breach. It affects 573,928 cardholders whose name, address, and credit card number were exposed between March 12 and June 8, said Susan Wade, a spokeswoman for Network Solutions.

Merchants and consumers can get more information on the Care and Protect Web site Network Solutions has set up. "We really feel terribly about this," Wade said.