Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks CTOnews.com netizen purple clothes scholar's clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) earlier this month, hackers packaged and sold an internal data on BreachForums that claimed to be D-Link, a Taiwanese manufacturer, for $500 (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 3660 yuan).

The attackers claimed to include the source code of D-View 's network management software, as well as 3 million pieces of data relating to the personal information of customers and employees, including details of many government officials in Taiwan and the company's CEO.

D-Link has now confirmed that the data breach is true. But contrary to the attacker's claim, D-Link said its infected system contained only about 700 records, which had been idle for at least seven years.

"these records are derived from the product registration system, which expires in 2015. in addition, most of the data consists of low sensitivity and semi-public information."

D-Link also suspects that hackers deliberately tampered with recent login timestamps to create the illusion that recent data was stolen. D-Link also stressed that most existing customers are unlikely to be affected by this incident.

According to reports, the data breach was caused by a phishing attack on a D-Link employee, which allowed the attacker to access the company's network.

In response to data breaches, D-Link immediately shut down potentially affected servers and disabled all user accounts except the two accounts used during the investigation.

D-Link also pointed out that the hackers accessed the product registration system in the "laboratory test environment", which runs on the old D-View6 system, which was phased out in 2015.

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