Dell hacked: attention leakage data

The American hardware company Dell announced today a security that 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. dell

The attackers were interested in customer names, email addresses and encrypted of access. The company 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 reported that δεν είχαν σαν στόχο τις κάρτες πληρωμών ή άλλες ευαίσθητες πληροφορίες πελατών και ότι το περιστατικό δεν προκάλεσε of 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 is worth mentioning that, although the company seems to downplay the violation, we know that too many companies that have been violated alter the initial disclosures as their research progresses.

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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