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Friday, July 04, 2003Online Pet Shop : I smell a rat
PetCo.com on-line pet store was compromised by a 20 year old 'white hat' hacker who demonstrated that their ecommerce web site was vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack and left 500,000 credit card details open to compromise. This is the same kind of standard of trust and duty of care that caused the Federal Trade Commission to issue such a punitive ruling against Guess the fashion and clothing retailer last month.
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