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Event Management Snafu: Cyber-Attacker Dumps Logins for 18,000 Customers, U.S. Employees

Posted on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 by

Nearly 18,000 customers of Allianceforbiz.com, a professional trade-show management company, have had their usernames, passwords, and email addresses hacked. More than 14,000 organizations affiliated with Allianceforbiz.com were involved, with approximately 13,322 passwords and 17,590 email addresses in the file; 11,358 of the passwords had a username associated with them. The company has shut its website temporarily until “all passwords have been changed,” according to a statement posted on its site. The company also posted a sign that it does not “save credit card numbers, so that is not an issue.” Oh, but what is the issue? Click above to see which high-level government agencies were affected in this widespread hacking. Read More

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