Four Romanian nationals were charged with pocketing millions of dollars by hacking into the credit card processing systems of more than 200 businesses. The men remotely accessed point-of-sale systems of 150 Subway sandwich shops and 50 unnamed retailers and stealing credit card data for more than 80,000 customers, according to a federal indictment unsealed earlier…
Month: December 2011
HP sued over exploitable printers
In whats becoming a very common thing yet another PC giant is being sued over products that have known exploits in them. The case comes with the recent exploit that was exposed that allowed a hacker to remotely access the printers and cause "major" damage to them. Last week plaintiff, David Goldblatt of New York stated that he…
Napsu.fi Confirms and alerts its users to breach and leak of 16,000+ accounts
Recently Napsu.fi was hacked and a huge amount of accounts was dumped on pastebin and has since made its way around a few other places and got its self in the bigger media’s eye. Now on the Napsu/fi home page, when translated you can see the below message which clearly states they screwed up and are attempting to…
Camden New Journal investigation on Camden Council’s website starts probe
Recently Camden New Journal, found a exploitable part of the Camden council website that allowed them to download licensing information from the councils servers. The information is said to of contained enough data for people to start identity fraud and cause real trouble for anyone who’s information was leaked. The breach has started up a probe…
Australian Telcom Giant, Telstra investigated over data breach
TELSTRA faces the wrath of the Federal Privacy Commissioner after leaving customer details of potentially millions of customers exposed on the web including, reportedly, usernames and passwords. The details were exposed in a search page used by Telstra customer service agents that was left unprotected and openly accessible on the web. The page entitled "Telstra…
PA: Hackers Steal Washington Co. Customers’ Credit Card Info
The Secret Service is investigating after several customers of a Washington County restaurant had their credit card information stolen by hackers from overseas. Beginning Dec. 4, Jumpers Junction customers began reporting their credit card information as being stolen. Investigators said each person had recently paid for their food with a credit card at the restaurant….