Mary-Ann Russon reports: Security researchers have discovered that a piece of malware named after the Star Wars character Chewbacca has been used to steal payment card and personal information 49,000 payment cards stored by 45 retailers in 11 countries. Details from the payment cards were stolen from 24 million payment card transactions over two months,…
Month: January 2014
Facing continued investigation and litigation, LabMD decides to wind down its operations (Updated)
Claiming that the FTC’s lengthy investigation and lawsuit against them has already cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars and seriously damaged their business, the CEO of LabMD announced this week that the Atlanta laboratory is winding down its operations. “The effects of this action will be felt throughout the medical community, from LabMD’s employees…
Mass hack attack on Yahoo Mail accounts prompts password reset
I noted a lot of tweets yesterday about Yahoo email being hacked and couldn’t figure out what the surprise was – after all, I had already reported that problem on January 27. In any event, it’s now been confirmed, I guess. Dan Goodin reports: Yahoo said it is resetting passwords for some of its e-mail…
11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers
Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…
URM updates breach notification
URM Stores has posted an update to a breach disclosed in November. The update indicates that the attack was “similar to” attacks reported by other grocery chains and retailers. URM was first alerted to the breach on October 31 by a bank, but its preliminary investigation did not uncover any signs of an attack. After…
Unity Health Insurance notifying over 41,000 patients after hard drive lost by University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
Fox47 reports: Unity Health Insurance said Thursday morning that a missing hard drive could compromise patient information for more than 40,000 members. The health insurance group said the portable computer hard drive was reported missing by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy on Dec. 12. Unity identified 41,437 members who may have been affected…