Yet again a web based game community has become the victim of hackers who have breached its system and leaked 38,000 login credentials. The community and website is Pixel Federation (https://www.pixelfederation.com/) which was founded in 2007 and is based in Slovakia. The site is very popular amongst gamers in Europe who play mobile and web…
Month: December 2013
UK Council for Graduate Education Hacked, Defaced & 636 User Accounts Leaked UPDATE 1
update 1: appears the hacker has made a return to the website and left it with a new defacement titled LULZ.. #2. A hacker who uses the handle smitt3nz has leaked data from the UK Council for Graduate Education website (https://www.ukcge.ac.uk) after breaching it and leaving it defaced as well. The data leak which was…
TN: Bojangles fast food restaurant hacked, credit card info stolen (update 1)
Mike Krafcik reports that police in Newport, Tennessee are investigating a string of fraudulent credit and debit card charges that they say point back to a fast food restaurant, Bojangles. Police believe the restaurant’s Wi-Fi network may to be blame and the problem may not be isolated to just that one location: In a statement,…
Some UW Medicine patients feeling disgruntled by lack of offer of free credit monitoring
When there’s any doubt, patients may want you to provide free credit monitoring following a breach. And when you balance the costs of providing it vs. the patient dissatisfaction if you don’t, well….
Former UNL student pleads guilty in security breach
Lori Pilger reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: The 23-year-old former student indicted in connection to a computer security breach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last year pleaded guilty Tuesday. Daniel Stratman, who lives in Omaha now and works for an IT company, had faced a dozen counts in an…
Macon woman sentenced in identity theft scheme
Tom George reports: A Macon woman was sentenced in federal court for her role in a identity theft scheme. 38-year-old Rhonda Everett plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraudulent claims, identity theft, and receiving stolen government property. In 2012, Everett was caught in a sting operation and admitted to obtaining personal information from 35 people…