Toll to inspect USBs it suspects aided data theft by former employee
Allie Coyne reports: Freight giant Toll has been given permission to access and inspect eight USB devices it thinks might have been used by an ex-employee to pinch sensitive corporate files. Earlier...
View ArticleInterContinental Hotel Chain Breach Expands
Brian Krebs reports: In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that fraud experts at various banks were seeing a pattern suggesting a widespread credit card breach across some 5,000 hotels...
View ArticleMillions of Fashion Fantasy Game accounts exposed in data breach,...
Charlie Osborne reports on an all-too-common situation: a site or vendor has a data breach and either doesn’t seem to know, despite repeated attempts to alert them, or doesn’t seem to care. In any...
View ArticleFeds seek 30-year sentence for Russian master hacker convicted in Seattle
Mike Carter reports: In Russian cybercrime mastermind Roman Seleznev, the Department of Justice is boasting it finally caught and convicted a big fish in the often impenetrable world of global computer...
View ArticleLongest sentence ever handed out for hacking: Roman Seleznev Sentenced to 27...
There was big news in the world of hacking prosecutions yesterday. The DOJ announced that Roman Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in prison for computer hacking crimes that reportedly caused more than...
View ArticleWall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer to See If He Will Be Let Go
Catalin Cimpanu reports: On Friday, April 7, the FBI arrested Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, who now stands accused of installing malware on his employer’s servers to steal proprietary...
View ArticleBlowout Cards Notifies Customers After Card Fraud Reports Roll In
On April 19, a user calling themself “ForceChange77” posted an inquiry on a Blowout Cards forum: Not sure where to put this, but I ordered something from Blowout in January. Used a credit card that I...
View ArticleAshley Madison blackmailers threaten to create Cheater’s Gallery exposing...
Graham Cluley reports: Blackmailers are once again trying to make money out of the notorious Ashley Madison hack, which exposed the details of registered members of the cheating website in 2015. Robin...
View ArticleA Week Later, Hacked Spyware Vendors Haven’t Warned Their 130,000 Customers
Joseph Cox reports: An alleged email apparently shows one employee explicitly telling staff not to warn customers the company was hacked. Tens of thousands of people are in the dark. Motherboard...
View ArticleChipotle warns of data security breach, recommends monitoring card statements
Melissa Stephenson reports: Chipotle Mexican Grill announced Tuesday that they have detected a data security breach. The company believes the breach may have affected transactions from March 24 through...
View ArticleUS ISP Goes Down as Two Malware Families Go to War Over Its Modems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two malware families battling for turf are most likely the cause of an outage suffered by Californian ISP Sierra Tel at the beginning of the month. This outage took place on...
View ArticleCustomer Data From Encrypted Phone Company Ciphr Dumped Online
Joseph Cox reports: The industry for so-called encrypted or secure phones is a lively one. Several firms sell custom BlackBerry or Android devices that may come pre-loaded with tools such as PGP email...
View ArticleUK: Two plead guilty to 2015 TalkTalk data breach
Shaun Nichols reports the latest on the 2015 TalkTalk hack: Two chaps in the UK have admitted stealing more than 150,000 customer records from TalkTalk. Matthew Hanley, 22, and Connor Douglass Allsopp,...
View ArticleInfo on Home Depot customers exposed (but no financial data)
Michael E. Kanell reports: A spread sheet listing about 8,000 customers, along with their transaction and a range of personal information, was posted for an unknown amount of time, on a Home Depot web...
View ArticleTheDarkOverlord leaks upcoming episode of Orange is the New Black after...
After a two-month hiatus, and with pixels to spare, TheDarkOverlord let it be known today that they are still hacking and attempting to extort their victims: And so let it be read that the loathsome...
View ArticleSadly, laptops stolen from cars are still a thing
From a notification filed on behalf of Donaldson Company, Inc.: On March 24, 2017, a Donaldson employee’s company-issued, user ID and password-protected laptop was stolen from the employee’s vehicle...
View ArticleRetina-X Studios Server Breached by Hackers
Last week, Kelly Austin reported: We must share some bad news that recently came to our attention. While we were under the impression that a hardware failure had occurred on one of our servers, several...
View ArticleUK: Online retailer left customers’ financial details vulnerable to cyber attack
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An online building products supplier has been fined £55,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after the firm failed to protect its customers’...
View ArticlePhishing attack potentially compromised 18,000 Gannett employees’ accounts
Elizabeth Weise reports: A phishing email attack potentially compromised the accounts of as many as 18,000 current and former employees of media company Gannett Co. As of Tuesday there was no...
View Article“They’re back:” Grey Eagle Casino hackers dump more data
Back in January, this site reported that Grey Eagle Resort & Casino in Calgary had been hacked and some personal employee data had been dumped. At the time, the hackers threatened to dump more...
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