Wired News has posted a followup to its recent story that iBill's database has been hacked and made available online (The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Incident: Billing information of 17M porn customers compromised). According to the company, the database in question containing names, email addresses, login details, etc. did not come from it:
Wired News: Porn Biller Says It Was Framed...The databases, examined by Wired News, include names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses and internet IP addresses of customers making online purchases. Other fields in the compromised databases appear to be logins and passwords, credit-card types and purchase amounts, but credit-card numbers are not included.
But Spaniak says iBill cross referenced the 17 million transaction database against its own on Wednesday, and that only three e-mail addresses matched between the two.
Additionally, some entries in the stolen databases were identified as purchases on Diner's Club cards, which iBill says it has never accepted in its nine year history. Spaniak says iBill recently passed a security audit that found its databases well secured.
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