09 Dec Fiserv admits breach to online bill payment system
Scammers hijacked the Web site of Fiserv Inc.’s online bill-payment unit for a few hours last week, but the Brookfield company said Monday its systems weren’t compromised and none of the data it holds was breached.
The takeover occurred just after midnight last Tuesday, when some users of Fiserv-owned CheckFree, which is the nation’s biggest provider of online bill payment services, were routed to a site in Ukraine. The Internet intruders were trying to install “malware,” harmful software that in some cases enables the theft of personal information.
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