Another Credit-Card-as-Authentication Hack

Schneier on Security 2014-01-31

Summary:

This is a pretty impressive social engineering story: an attacker compromised someone's GoDaddy domain registration in order to change his e-mail address and steal his Twitter handle. It's a complicated attack. My claim was refused because I am not the "current registrant." GoDaddy asked the attacker if it was ok to change account information, while they didn't bother asking me...

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Tags:

authentication creditcards fraud hacking identitytheft paypal twitter

Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

01/31/2014, 10:30

Date published:

01/31/2014, 07:16