By Eduard Kovacs on September 03, 2014
Goodwill Industries International revealed on Tuesday that some of its customers' payment cards were compromised after the systems of a third-party vendor became infected with malware.
The non-profit organization announced investigating a possible card breach back in July after being alerted by a payment card industry fraud investigative unit and federal authorities.
Following an investigation, it has been determined that cybercriminals gained access to credit and debit card information after breaching the systems of a company that processes payments for some Goodwill members. An unspecified piece of malware had allowed the attackers to intermittently access the said vendor's systems between February 10, 2013, and August 14, 2014, the organization said.
The compromised servers stored names, payment card numbers, and expiration dates. There's no evidence that PINs, addresses and other personal information has been obtained by the cybercrooks.
A total of 20 Goodwill members (roughly 10% of all stores) use the affected vendor's services to process payments, but there's no evidence that the malware made its way onto their systems.
Affected stores are located in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC
SecurityWeek/ full article here/ http://www.securityweek.com/goodwill-blames-credit-card-breach-third-party-vendor
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9/4/2014 Sara Peters Rawpos, a "very low risk" infostealer, is responsible for the compromise of roughly 868,000 credit cards. Despite the retail industry's new fervor over the Backoff malware, it was Rawpos, not Backoff, that is to blame for the breach at Goodwill retail stores, reported in July. Symantec gave Rawpos a risk rating of "very low" when they discovered the infostealer in February. Very low risk or not, Rawpos was used to compromise 330 of Goodwill's independently operated "member" stores in 20 US states, and exposed information on 868,000 credit cards, a Goodwill representative confirms.
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