The American hardware company Dell announced today a breach security which took place at the beginning of November, specifically on November 9.
Dell reports that it has detected an unauthorized intruder (or intruders) "trying to extract Dell.com customer information" from their systems.
The attackers were interested in customer names, email addresses and encrypted passwords accesss. THE company he did not elaborate on the complexity of the password encryption algorithm.
Note that some of the encryption algorithms like MD5 can break in a few seconds and reveal the password in plain text.
"While it is possible that some of this information has been removed from Dell's network, our research does not find any evidence of this," Dell said in a statement. Press release. The American company said it was still investigating the incident.
The company also said that the hackers did not target them cards payment or other sensitive customer information and that the incident did not cause disruption to normal services at the time of the breach or thereafter.
The company, however, has begun resetting passwords for all of its registered customers' accounts on Dell.com, and said it has informed the authorities. He also hired a security company to conduct an independent investigation.
It's worth mentioning that although the company seems to be downplaying the breach, we know that too many Companies who have been hacked modify the initial disclosures as their investigations progress.
In addition to resetting passwords, Dell.com users should manually check their most compromised information. For example, if they have saved a payment card, they should monitor the movements of the card…
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