Darren Pauli reports:
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has opened an investigation into the breach of two Fairfax microsites to probe whether sufficient security mechanisms were in place during the attacks.
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Fairfax confirmed that two of its microsites were hacked but said up to 10,000 unencrypted credit card details compromised in the same attack were not linked to Fairfax customers.
Hackers revealed to SC Magazine how they managed to exploit vulnerabilities in two third party-hosted web sites, Herald Education and Young Writer.
Read more on SCMagazine.
Update: Fairfax confirms that the acquired credit card numbers were not from their database.