Hacking is on the rise day by day as the Hackers seek new and shocking ways to exploit systems for money forgery, cyber theft and cyber crime. In a shocking incident recently, a Chicago based Parking facility Providing company's systems have been reported to be hacked. SP Plus issued a statement on Friday telling payment systems in 10 parking garages in Chicago and three in Evanston were hacked to drew credit card information. The company then assured that security issue in the parking systems has been fixed and steps have been taken to monitor any theft via credit cards involved. The company informed the related banks about the hack and has been working hard to save damages. Further, the customers have been advised to monitor any suspicious transactions via credit cards and report the respective bank immediately.

Mike Brockaway, who runs a blog said,

I'm guessing that there's a weakness in these systems and a hacker obviously knew this and exploited it. And there's a lot of credit card activity that goes on at these parking garages.

The Company has provided a detailed list also comprising of dates the customers may have been at risk as shown below:

At first, SP Plus was notified by the company who maintains its payment card systems that an unauthorized person used company's remote access tool to connect to computers that process payment cards for facilities in parking garage. After this, SP Plus immediately took this case to a leading computer forensic firm for to examine he payment systems in the parking facilities.

SP+ published the following statement regarding the breach,

"The unauthorized person used the remote access tool to install malware that searched for payment card data that was being routed through the computers that accept payments made at the parking facilities. While SP+ was conducting this investigation, it identified one additional facility where card data was at risk. The information from payment cards that may have been captured by the malware is the cardholder's name, card number, expiration date, and verification code."

A Total of 17 SP+ Parking facilities. The malware has said to be now disabled on all detected systems and affected servers. Also, adding a security layer to the systems, SP+ introduced two-factor authentication for remote access for vendor usage.

At last the company said,

" SP+ is working with the computer security firm to implement additional enhanced security measures. Customers can feel confident in continuing to use their cards at the affected locations."