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Bodybuilding.com confirms Data Breach

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Bodybuilding.com, the internet's biggest online store and online forum for fitness and bodybuilding enthusiasts, has disclosed last week a security breach that impacted its IT systems.<br />
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Customer data might have been exposed, the company said in a <a href="https://www.bodybuilding.com/help?notifications&data-incident">short message</a> posted on its website. Its staff isn't sure if the attacker accessed customer data, though.<br />
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A third-party security firm was hired to help with the investigation, but forensics experts couldn't confirm that customer data was stolen from Bodybuilding.com's servers, either.<br />
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Bodybuilding.com said investigators traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email its staff received in July 2018. At least one employee appears to have fallen for this email.<br />
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Hackers used the data they obtained from this phishing email to access the company's network in February 2019. Bodybuilding.com didn't say when it detected the intrusion, but it said it finished its investigation on April 12. It went public with the security breach a week later, on April 19.<br />
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We became aware of a data security incident involving unauthorized access to our systems in February 2019. We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. On April 12, 2019, we concluded our investigation and could not rule out that personal information may have been accessed.</blockquote>
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Despite not knowing if hackers accessed customer data, Bodybuilding.com decided to do the right thing and notify all of its customers of the security incident, as a precaution.<br />
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It also reset all users' passwords as well, to prevent any abuse in case attackers did manage to steal any data.<br />
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According to the company, if hackers did manage to access and steal customer data, possibly exposed details will include name, email address, billing/shipping addresses, phone number, order history, any communications with Bodybuilding.com, birthdate, and any information included in BodySpace profiles.<br />
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Social Security numbers and payment card details were not exposed, the company said, as the site never collected this information in the first place.<br />
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Besides notifying users of the breach, Bodybuilding.com is also alerting users that scammers might also try to imitate its data breach disclosure notifications for online fraud or phishing attacks.<br />
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Please note that the email from Bodybuilding.com does not ask you to click on any links or contain attachments and does not request your personal data. If the email you received about this issue prompts you to click on a link, suggests you download an attachment, or asks you for information, the email was not sent by Bodybuilding.com and may be an attempt to steal your personal data. Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from such suspicious emails. Any link included in our email to users directs users to insert the Bodybuilding.com FAQs URL into your browser and does not request your personal data.</blockquote>
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Phishing Attack Using Tabnabbing

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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316">Most phishing attacks depend on an original deception. If you detect that you are at the wrong URL, or that something is amiss on a page, the chase is up. You've escaped the attackers. In fact, the time that wary people are most wary is exactly when they first navigate to a site.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316">What we don't expect is that a page we've been looking at will change behind our backs, when we aren't looking. That'll catch us by surprise.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316"><b>How Phishing Attack Using Tabnabbing Works</b></span></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316">A user navigates to your normal looking site.</span></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">You detect when the page has lost its focus and hasn't been interacted with for a while.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Replace the favicon with the Gmail favicon, the title with "Gmail: Email from Google", and the page with a Gmail login look-a-like. This can all be done with just a little bit of Javascript that takes place instantly.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">As the user scans their many open tabs, the favicon and title act as a strong visual cue—memory is malleable and moldable and the user will most likely simply think they left a Gmail tab open. When they click back to the fake Gmail tab, they'll see the standard Gmail login page, assume they've been logged out, and provide their credentials to log in. The attack preys on the perceived immutability of tabs.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">After the user has entered their login information and you've sent it back to your server, you redirect them to Gmail. Because they were never logged out in the first place, it will appear as if the login was successful.</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316">In this attack, the phisher need not even change the Web address displayed in the browser's navigation toolbar. Rather, this particular phishing attack takes advantage of user trust and inattention to detail, or what Raskin calls "the perceived immutability of tabs." Then, as the user scans their many open tabs, the favicon and title act as a strong visual cue, and the user will most likely simply think they left a Gmail tab open.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316">"When they click back to the fake Gmail tab, they'll see the standard Gmail login page, assume they've been logged out, and provide their credentials to log in," Raskin explained. "After the user has enter they have entered their login information and sent it back your server, you redirect them to Gmail. Because they were never logged out in the first place, it will appear as if the login was successful."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="7140679708706166316"><i>For Firefox users with the Noscript plugin, there is an update to the program that can block these types of tabnabbing attacks.</i></span></span></div>
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