Hackers likely hit Target lottery through Sharpsburg firm's remote link
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
For computer hackers, it's like playing the Powerball.
Criminals looking to steal credit card records from a major retailer such as Target will play as many angles as they can, blitzing the company's contractors to find a way inside its systems, hacking experts told the Tribune-Review Friday.
“Really what attackers are doing is a game of numbers,” said David Brumley, a computer security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University who teaches students how to probe companies for security risks. “If they compromise enough individual computers... one of those will have access to their target computer.”
That appears to be what happened when hackers broke into the systems at a Sharpsburg heating and ventilation company, Fazio Mechanical Services Inc., experts said. Owner Ross Fazio said the company is the victim of a “sophisticated cyberattack” being investigated by the Secret Service that could be linked to the theft of credit card information from Target.
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