Zhan Jie reports: Four suspects have been detained for obtaining user information illegally from one of China’s largest e-commerce websites and stealing money from its user accounts, Xinhua News Agency reported today. More than 2,000 customers of 360buy.com fell victim to the information leak and lost more than 30,000 yuan (US$4,785) in total, Beijing prosecutors…
Month: May 2012
TX: Former Capital One Bank employee pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Jamal Gerard Mose-Burrel, 22, of Houston, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft last week. Mose-Burrel, who formerly worked for Capital One Bank, admitted that he used Capital One Bank systems to provide a co-conspirator identified only as “T.J.” with the personal information and bank account information of…
Secret patient recordings – are they legal?
A piece from Dentistry.co.uk caught my eye this morning: Dentists are warned that the law offers little or no protection from patients covertly recording consultations. Patients are within their rights to record consultations and could use the information obtained to challenge their dentist’s actions. ‘Dentists would be cautioned against covertly recording patients’ The increasing use…
Chinese Government & U.K Royal Air Force Hacked by @Drone547
Once again the Chinese government has come under attack by hackers. the hacker going under the twitter name @Drone547 has dumped 3 pastes on pastebin.com, two of which belong to the Chinese government and the 3rd belongs to the United kingdoms royal air force. The leaked data is only minor but shows that governments from all country are continuing to impose security on websites. First…
kellogg’s Nz- AU, sheriff’s, vodafone hacked by @ChemicaL_raids
@ChemicaL_raids aka ChemicaL have been attacking some high profile targets in a spree of attacks over April and still going. The crew which is made up of @_ProtocoL @_iDreaming @s3lf_d3struct @Distr0 @Synd1cat3 @_Randar has dumped information and left servers wiped and defaced in this spree. First of we have a couple of Kellogg’s servers that have been breached, one from newzealand and one from australia,…
TX: Ex-Hospital Employee Blamed in Security Breach
John Perera reports: A hospital in northwest Harris County is warning 741 patients that their personal health information was compromised by a former employee. Several patients at IntraCare North Hospital have reported false income tax returns were filed using their personal information, hospital spokesman John Redd said. That ex-employee was an intake coordinator at the…