Jeremy Boysen, President of JB Autosports, Inc is notifying customers who used the subispeed.com and ft86speedfactory.com sites between August 1, 2015 through November 9, 2015, that their payment card data was intercepted during transmission and acquired by an unknown party at a Russian IP address. The breach allowed cyberattackers to intercept customer names, addresses, credit…
Month: January 2016
Details of 18000 Faithless fans have been stolen in a website hack
Patrick Hinton reports: 18,000 Faithless fans have had their personal details stolen after the dance group’s website was subject to a cyber-attack from hackers. The site’s defences were breached after a piece of malware was uploaded using a technique called an SQL injection, and now the illegally acquired data, including users’ personal e-mail addresses and…
Four Miami-Dade Residents Indicted for Participation in Fraud Schemes
Four Miami-Dade residents have been indicted for their participation in various schemes to defraud the United States government. Fernando Mendez Villamil, 48, of South Miami, Maritza Exposito, 57, of Miami, Arnaldo Oscar Jimenez, 57, of Hialeah, and Yomara Vila, 45, of Miami were charged in a twenty-one count indictment for their participation in a scheme…
FL: Orlando Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison For Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
There’s an update to a case previously mentioned on this site. Shantrell Sharae Stephenson has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for stolen identity refund fraud. She was also ordered to pay $92,532 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. She pleaded guilty on August 26, 2015. According to court documents, Lori Ann Dilworth,…
NJ: Kean University Hacked Three Times in One Day, Algerian Group Claims Responsibility
It seems that in the week before Christmas, Kean University’s site was attacked and defaced on three occasions. Kathy Lloyd and Charles Kim reported: The Kean University website was hacked three times Sunday and into early Monday morning by what the college and its police department believe to be an Algerian group calling itself “Red Hell.”…
Anonymous claims it brought down 200 Thai websites over British murders verdict
Amy Sawitta Lefevre reports: International hacking movement Anonymous said it attacked hundreds of Thai government websites over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists. […] Some rights workers say they believe police forced the two into confessing under duress. Police denied that. In a message posted on…