Shelby Carpenter reports: The black-hat hacker world is at it again–this time, publishing hundreds of Spotify Premium user accounts online. The user info appeared in three different online data dumps on Pastebin starting on Monday. Each dump contained email addresses with their corresponding passwords for Spotify. For some accounts, home countries, account types (such as premium or…
Month: February 2016
Website selling stolen credit card numbers is shut down
James Dean reports: One of the web’s largest criminal markets for stolen credit and debit cards has gone offline after being exposed by The Times. Bestvalid.cc, which sold personal and financial information stolen from 100,000 Britons for as little as £1.67, disappeared yesterday. Read more on The Times (sub. req.)
New guilty plea, charges in global press release hacking scheme
Jonathan Stempl reports: A third trader has entered a guilty plea over what U.S. authorities have called a more than $100 million (£70 million) international scheme to hack into newswires that distribute corporate press releases, and use stolen information to conduct insider trading. Arkadiy Dubovoy, 51, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of conspiracy…
Blogger Exposes Personal Data Protection Flaw on Macedonia’s Election Commission Website
Filip Stojanovski reports: Ensuring that the next elections are free and fair is crucial to the return of democracy and stability in Macedonia. A young female blogger contributed to this process by discovering a flaw related to the government’s voters’ registry web app. […] On the morning of February 10, [Kalina] Zografska published a blog post…
NY: Insurer won’t have to cover Five Guys’ data breach
From the read-your-policy-carefully dept., Eric Anderson reports: The operators of several Five Guys restaurants in the Capital Region won’t be able to collect damages from their insurance company after their computer network was breached in late 2011, the state Appellate Division ruled Thursday. RSVT Holdings, the restaurant operator, had sought to be reimbursed for losses…
Suspected Member of Anonymous Arrested After Rescue At Sea During Disney Cruise
Tom Winter and Corky Siemaszko report: A suspected hacker from Massachusetts landed in hot water Wednesday a day after he was rescued at sea by a Disney cruise ship. Martin Gottesfeld was arrested by the FBI in Miami and charged with conspiracy for allegedly helping to launch a computer attack on Boston Children’s Hospital as part…