[Dataloss] Auction.co.kr - Chinese hacker steals user information on 18 MILLION

[security curmudgeon]

[No references for this event. No details if CC information other other
  NPPI/PII was stolen. - jericho]

http://www.webappsec.org/projects/whid/byid_id_2008-10.shtml

WHID 2008-10: Chinese hacker steals user information on 18 MILLION online 
shoppers at Auction.co.kr

Reported: 12 February 2008
Occurred: 10 February 2008

Classifications:

     * Attack Method: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
     * Country: Korea
     * Origin: China
     * Outcome: Downtime
     * Outcome: Leakage of Information
     * Vertical: Retail

A Korean e-commerce site was hacked and a staggering number of record, 18 
million, where stolen. In the US this would be front news. We don't know 
if it was front news in Korea, but did not get to the international media.

The attack description is vague but can be best described as session 
hijacking.

This incident is a great example of the lack of sufficient international 
coverage at WHID. Help us by sending us non English incidents! After all, 
it is not English speakers only that get hacked, but rather us, the WHID 
maintainers that speak only this language.

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