DigiNotar declares bankruptcy after major security breach

The disgraced Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, recently at the center of a hacking scandal, has declared itself bankrupt. The firm first realized it had been compromised July 19 but failed to make any public announcement until the end of August when Iranian users began to notice their Gmail accounts were using fake SSL certificates.
Theses certificates are used by hackers to intercept people's login details and private information when visiting secure sites like Google's Gmail service. In the subsequent investigation that followed, DigiNotar was found to have issued over 500 fake certificates during the period of its breach, with many high profile companies compromised, including Micro... »read more

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