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simply running a website on iis does not automatically make it the source of the breach.

a lot will depend on what that website did, and what it had access to. if it was simply a marketing website, properly segregated on the network as it should be, it really wouldnt matter what it ran or whether it got hacked, as it wouldnt have access to anything. from looking at their website, it does seem that is the case; the website itself doesnt seem to function in their processing flow.

my guess is that the website is not the source of this particular issue. seems more likely to have been either an inside job (and thus open to be anything), or a hacked user box inside the perimeter (likely to have been windows in that case), as that is probably the weakest link in their security.
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