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Sam's Club resets passwords after thousands of logins posted online...
Over 14,000 usernames and plain-text passwords for the retail giant's online store were posted online over the weekend.
Wholesale retail giant Sam's Club has reset passwords for thousands of customers after their account details were posted online.
In an email to members obtained by ZDNet, the Walmart-owned company said that it had begun resetting passwords after it found that "someone might be trying to take advantage" of customer accounts.
It comes after over 14,600 email addresses and plain-text passwords associated with Sam's Club's online store were dumped on Pastebin, a text sharing site, on Saturday.
The title of the password dump said that the accounts listed belonged to the retail giant. The company which has over 650 locations across the US and tens of millions of members.
But the company denied that it had been hacked.
"We've looked into this issue and there is no indication of a breach of our systems. It is most likely a result of one of the past breaches of other companies' systems.
Because customers often use the same usernames and passwords on various sites, bad actors will typically test the credentials they obtain across many popular sites. Unfortunately this is an industry-wide issue," said Walmart spokesperson Dan Toporek in an email.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sams-club-resets-passwords-after-thousands-of-logins-posted-online/
Over 14,000 usernames and plain-text passwords for the retail giant's online store were posted online over the weekend.
Wholesale retail giant Sam's Club has reset passwords for thousands of customers after their account details were posted online.
In an email to members obtained by ZDNet, the Walmart-owned company said that it had begun resetting passwords after it found that "someone might be trying to take advantage" of customer accounts.
It comes after over 14,600 email addresses and plain-text passwords associated with Sam's Club's online store were dumped on Pastebin, a text sharing site, on Saturday.
The title of the password dump said that the accounts listed belonged to the retail giant. The company which has over 650 locations across the US and tens of millions of members.
But the company denied that it had been hacked.
"We've looked into this issue and there is no indication of a breach of our systems. It is most likely a result of one of the past breaches of other companies' systems.
Because customers often use the same usernames and passwords on various sites, bad actors will typically test the credentials they obtain across many popular sites. Unfortunately this is an industry-wide issue," said Walmart spokesperson Dan Toporek in an email.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/sams-club-resets-passwords-after-thousands-of-logins-posted-online/
