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  Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen

  Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:39pm CET by timothy

  Tags:  security  

  mask.of.sanity writes "Verisign admitted it was hacked repeatedly last year and cannot pin down what data was stolen. It says it doesn't believe the Domain Name System servers were hacked but it cannot rule it out. Symantec, which bought its certificate business in 2010, says also that there was no evidence that system was affected. Verisign further admitted in an SEC filing that its security team failed to tell management about the attacks until 2011, despite moving to address the hacks."

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