[Dataloss] Hackers swipe seed company's customers' data

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http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/3676190.html

WINSLOW -- The Web site of Johnny's Selected Seeds has been hacked by 
an intruder, resulting in the theft of thousands of private records 
and credit card numbers, a company official said Friday.

Bruce Harrington, the company's director of sales and marketing, said 
11,500 credit card accounts were stolen electronically in February.

"This is a violation, this is a criminal act and it's on us," 
Harrington said. "We are a victim here; it wasn't like we had credit 
card information ready for the taking."

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Of the total number of accounts that were breached, about 20 of the 
credit cards were used fraudulently, Harrington said.

He said the last known Internet Service Provider to register action 
involving the Johnny's case was somewhere in the United Kingdom.

Harrington said the security system was hacked in a very 
sophisticated, methodical way.

"Essentially what happened is that criminals gained access to our 
internal systems and gathered enough information to allow them to 
then gain access to our Web site," Harrington said.

The company's "server farm" in Kentucky was the target, he said.

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