SecurityRatty: Just the tip of the CyberCrime Iceberg

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Just the tip of the CyberCrime Iceberg

2008-05-07 16:19:23 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog

I do believe the Finjan company and its staff deserve a Holiday named after them.

clipped from www.finjan.com

Finjan Discovers Compromised Business & Customer Data of 40 Top-tier Global Businesses

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced its discovery of a server controlled by hackers (Crimeserver) containing more than 1.4 Gigabyte of business and personal data stolen from infected PCs. The data consisted of 5,388 unique log files. Both email communications and web-related data were among them.

The compromised data came from all around the world and contained information from individuals, businesses, as well as renowned organizations, including healthcare providers.
To illustrate the scope; the server contained among others 571 log files from the US, 621 from Germany (DE), 322 from France (FR), 308 from India (IN), 232 from Great Britain (GB), 150 from Spain (ES), 86 from Canada (CA), 58 from Italy (IT), 46 from the Netherlands (NL), and 1,037 from Turkey (TR).