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Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho Danchev

Zappos hacked, 24 million affected

By | January 16, 2012, 8:31am PST

Summary: The attackers may have swiped names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and/or cryptographically scrambled passwords.

Online shoe shop Zappos has suffered a massive data breach that exposed user accounts for about 24 million users.

According to an e-mail from Zappos chief executive Tony Hsieh, attackers gained access to parts of the company’s internal network and systems through a server in Kentucky.

Hsieh said the attackers may have swiped customer account information on Zappos.com, including names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and/or cryptographically scrambled password (but not the actual password).

Zappos made it clear that the database that stores critical credit card and other payment data was NOT affected or accessed.

Amazon.com, which owns Zappos, was not affected by this breach.

More details can be found in Hsieh’s email.

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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues.

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Ryan Naraine

The most important disclosure is of my employment with Kaspersky Lab as a member of the global research and analysis team. Kaspersky Lab is a global company specializing in anti-malware and secure content management technologies. I do not own stocks or other investments in any technology company.

Biography

Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

Ryan can be reached at naraine SHIFT 2 gmail.com. For daily updates on Ryan's activities, follow him on Twitter.

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