Data Theft Carried Out On Network Thought Secure
Criminals involved in a massive data breach at the Hannaford Bros. and Sweetbay grocery chains stole the customer information from a part of a computer-network system that security experts had believed was secure.
Many merchants and organizations have been faulted for exposing sensitive customer information by transmitting data through unsecure wireless network systems. But Carol Eleazer, Hannaford’s vice president of marketing, said the Scarborough, Maine, grocer was using a preferred state-of-the-art fiber-optic cable for its transmissions.
“It’s really easy to pick data off wireless networks but it’s extremely difficult to do that with wired systems,” says Avivah Litan, an analyst ..
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