[Dataloss] 30,000 Dutch Credit card details stolen

[Henry Brown]

http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/176842.html

30,000 Dutch Telsell-customer creditcard details stolen from Telsell 
computers, Telsell claims not their responsibility

Customers of the television-sales organization TelSell can not only 
tele-shop while relaxing in their lazy chair, they also have a good 
chance to be robbed, while in that same chair.

Earlier this year the details of over 30,000 creditcards have been 
stolen from Telsell’s computersystems.

The details are from customers who in the past ordered Telsell products, 
including slimming belts, fitness equipment and figure-correction 
underwear. With the card details cybercriminals can relatively easy make 
illegal transfers, where the victims are served the bill.

The Dutch company Telsell has been aware of this theft since 6 months, 
but never informed those customers at risk. The company decided take the 
credit card organization, looking at Telsell for recovery of the stolen 
amounts, to court. This has been discovered in procedural legal 
documents, obtained by the Telegraaf, the largest Dutch newspaper.

According to these papers, last May hackers managed to break into, and 
compromize Telsell’s computersystems, copying over fifteenthousand Visa 
card details and around sixteenthousand Mastercard details.

What is unusual is that Telsell decided not to fore-warn its possibly 
affected customers. If they had been warned in time, customers could 
have checked their creditcard accounts for irregularities. Anyone who 
does not notice illegitimate transfers in their own account statements 
timely, will not receive any financial compensation.

The even more unsual explanation by Telsell is: “It is not our 
resonsibility to warn our customers” Yesterday the company Telsell 
refused to comment. Also it is not clear whether sufficient measures 
have been taken to avoid a repeat of the computer systems compromize.

Original article in Dutch

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/2622436/Telsell-klanten_dupe_roof.html?p=3,1