Deleting the data after verification is a good practice. But if you're actively compromised, it probably doesn't matter how long you keep the data because it's already been immediately "backed up" by the intruders the second it is collected.
Much like Target and Home Depot with their big credit card breaches a decade ago. Everyone was up in arms about these companies "storing" full credit card records, when in reality the attackers had card-sniffing malware installed on every single cash register at every single store across the country.
In the Heartland data breach, the custom malware that hackers wrote copied the mag stripe as it passed through the payment system. I got a new credit card after that broke (also after Target's breach was reported). Heartland did not store the card details at all.
How it was discovered was some dumb luck when an auditor asked what seems like a dumb question. When you type dir or ls at a command prompt, it says something like "X files using Y bytes, Z bytes free". How do you know those numbers are true/correct? It turns out that the malware changed how the OS reported those numbers (falsely as it turned out).
That's a pretty decent list of breaches. Never seen it before. Thanks for sharing. I can't believe they didn't mention the Ashley Madison breach, which affected more than 30 million people, ended countless marriages, and led to more than a few suicides.
They're typically stored as "tokenized" values. The tokenized version shares the type and the last 4 digits (so that you can share it with the customer to help them identify the card). You buy this capability from vendors and IIRC there's like 3 or 4 common vendors in the marketplace.
It's not just one device line; Have a look at the list maintained by the proxy tracking service Synthient, which tracks streaming boxes, digital picture frames and other IoT devices that have been known to bundle residential proxy software, among other malicious apps. They currently track almost 1,000 different makes and model numbers.
Sometimes just a little bit DNS research can yield a lot of useful results.
Looking at the passive DNS records for the domain chanceletikva.org shows it references the email address davidm@yeahdim.co.il.That email address is tied to multiple website registrations for a person by the name of David Margaliot, and also Shoshana Margaliot.
A search on this name in Domaintools finds the name David Margaliot tied to at least 25 domains, including ezri.org.il, which is a very odd site that features a huge image of a young child who is apparently in the hospital holding a gift wrapped box with a teddy bear. The site asks for donations but has a strange mission statement: Ezri Association promotes life-saving innovation through a surveillance drone project for emergency response teams, the establishment of an international medical knowledge database, along with other technological initiatives".
I'll probably continue the rest of this in a follow-up story.
This is the way. You don't have to protect what you don't collect. Mullvad is an excellent example of this. They don't even want you to pick a password, and they're fine if you just mail them cash as payment.
Their earlier statement said they were aware of the CEO's history but were assured that part of his life was behind him. From that statement on March 15: “We were aware of the past affiliations with the entities named in the article and were assured they had ended prior to our work together,” the statement reads. “We’re now looking into this further. We will always put the privacy and security of our customers first and will provide updates as needed.”
One caveat: This list should not be considered exhaustive or complete by any means. e.g. changing the URL slightly by incrementing or decrementing a number in the URL caused a slightly different set of customers to be listed. I didn’t have a chance to go through it all before they took it down (note to self: pillage BEFORE burning).
The identity of the defendant has been doing this for many years and is one of the original members of the Com. The people in that scene sim-swapping artists for their music are those that have already made their stolen millions, and have long ago graduated from stealing usernames and gamertag handles.
Much like Target and Home Depot with their big credit card breaches a decade ago. Everyone was up in arms about these companies "storing" full credit card records, when in reality the attackers had card-sniffing malware installed on every single cash register at every single store across the country.