Re: The thread is gone.

sophiamarie · ‎08-08-2013

Before everyone gets their panties in a twist, this is not "breaking news" - except here, of course. I read about this in my local paper on Monday and it wasn't even front page news (except here of course).....

Watch your news if you want to learn more about this. It's happening in Russia, nothing to worry about in the U.S. and if it was "alarming", wouldn't we be hearing about it everywhere - on all the stations and in all the papers????

I just signed on to three banks and I didn't see any warnings. The last place I would want to hear breaking news would be on the Q's shopping board. JMO of course. To each his/her own...... ${#emotions_dlg.rolleyes}$

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I heard on the news this morning that the hackers were using the info to spam accounts.

DoneTryin · ‎03-09-2010

Other than here, I haven't heard any news about this. After having had a debit card hacked a couple of years ago, I now check my credit union accounts daily & haven't yet seen any alerts there, either.

Marp2 · ‎01-31-2012

On 8/6/2014 sophiamarie said:
Before everyone gets their panties in a twist, this is not "breaking news" - except here, of course. I read about this in my local paper on Monday and it wasn't even front page news (except here of course).....

Watch your news if you want to learn more about this. It's happening in Russia, nothing to worry about in the U.S. and if it was "alarming", wouldn't we be hearing about it everywhere - on all the stations and in all the papers????

I just signed on to three banks and I didn't see any warnings. The last place I would want to hear breaking news would be on the Q's shopping board. JMO of course. To each his/her own...... ${#emotions_dlg.rolleyes}$

From what I have read the hackers are based in Russia, not that it is only happening in Russia.

According to the Times article the companies affected have not yet been named because of confidentiality agreements. There is no way this affects only Russia. The following is from http://news.msn.com/science-technology/report-russian-hackers-steal-12b-passwords

Alex Holden, the founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security, told the Times that most of the sites hit by the Russian hackers are still vulnerable to further break-ins. Besides filching 1.2 billion online passwords, the hackers also have amassed 500 million email addresses that could help them engineer other crimes, according to Hold Security.

So, far little of the information stolen in the wave of attacks appears to have been sold to other online crooks, according to the Times. Instead, the information is being used to send marketing pitches, schemes and other junk messages on social networks on Twitter, the newspaper said.

LilacTree · ‎03-25-2012

On 8/6/2014 Marp2 said:
On 8/6/2014 sophiamarie said:
Before everyone gets their panties in a twist, this is not "breaking news" - except here, of course. I read about this in my local paper on Monday and it wasn't even front page news (except here of course).....

Watch your news if you want to learn more about this. It's happening in Russia, nothing to worry about in the U.S. and if it was "alarming", wouldn't we be hearing about it everywhere - on all the stations and in all the papers????

I just signed on to three banks and I didn't see any warnings. The last place I would want to hear breaking news would be on the Q's shopping board. JMO of course. To each his/her own...... ${#emotions_dlg.rolleyes}$

From what I have read the hackers are based in Russia, not that it is only happening in Russia.

According to the Times article the companies affected have not yet been named because of confidentiality agreements. There is no way this affects only Russia. The following is from http://news.msn.com/science-technology/report-russian-hackers-steal-12b-passwords

Alex Holden, the founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security, told the Times that most of the sites hit by the Russian hackers are still vulnerable to further break-ins. Besides filching 1.2 billion online passwords, the hackers also have amassed 500 million email addresses that could help them engineer other crimes, according to Hold Security.

So, far little of the information stolen in the wave of attacks appears to have been sold to other online crooks, according to the Times. Instead, the information is being used to send marketing pitches, schemes and other junk messages on social networks on Twitter, the newspaper said.

This is exactly the way CNN reported it this morning.

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sophiamarie · ‎08-08-2013

On 8/6/2014 Ford1224 said:
On 8/6/2014 Marp2 said:
On 8/6/2014 sophiamarie said:
Before everyone gets their panties in a twist, this is not "breaking news" - except here, of course. I read about this in my local paper on Monday and it wasn't even front page news (except here of course).....

Watch your news if you want to learn more about this. It's happening in Russia, nothing to worry about in the U.S. and if it was "alarming", wouldn't we be hearing about it everywhere - on all the stations and in all the papers????

I just signed on to three banks and I didn't see any warnings. The last place I would want to hear breaking news would be on the Q's shopping board. JMO of course. To each his/her own...... ${#emotions_dlg.rolleyes}$

From what I have read the hackers are based in Russia, not that it is only happening in Russia.

According to the Times article the companies affected have not yet been named because of confidentiality agreements. There is no way this affects only Russia. The following is from http://news.msn.com/science-technology/report-russian-hackers-steal-12b-passwords

Alex Holden, the founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security, told the Times that most of the sites hit by the Russian hackers are still vulnerable to further break-ins. Besides filching 1.2 billion online passwords, the hackers also have amassed 500 million email addresses that could help them engineer other crimes, according to Hold Security.

So, far little of the information stolen in the wave of attacks appears to have been sold to other online crooks, according to the Times. Instead, the information is being used to send marketing pitches, schemes and other junk messages on social networks on Twitter, the newspaper said.

This is exactly the way CNN reported it this morning.