Kiplinger’s customer database is hacked

Diane Bartz of Reuters reports that a hacking of Kiplinger’s database occurred last month.

She writes that hackers “broke into its database and accessed information about 142,000 customers, including possibly 43,000 encrypted credit card numbers.

“The hack was discovered on June 25, and affected online subscribers as well as those who have print subscriptions, the company said in a statement.

“‘We believe that about 43,000 encrypted credit cards that were in our database may have been accessed,’ said Doug Harbrecht, director of new media.

“Kiplinger has notified customers and the FBI but does not know who was behind the hack, said Harbrecht.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.