Phillip Molnar reports on yet another breach of employee W-2 data via phishing: The tax and revenue information for roughly 14,000 employees of the third-largest parking company in the nation, which operates in San Diego and Los Angeles, may have been stolen by an “unknown individual,” the company says. LAZ Parking said Tuesday that the…
Month: March 2016
Yet more phishing-based compromises involving W-2 tax statement data (Update-24)
(Note: the following is not a complete list… it’s just a list I started after the first few posts on this topic suggested that there would be a lot more. See the “phishing” category of this site for earlier entries this year.) Reports continue to come in to state attorneys general involving the successful spear phishing…
Website of Hinjewadi Industries Association hacked, Anti Terrorism Squad steps in
Express News Service reports: The website of the Hinjewadi Industries Association (HIA) was hacked on Tuesday morning. Confirming it, Anil Patwardhan, president of the HIA, said, “The association had disabled the website for the last week or so in view of the upgradation work. We got to know about the hacking Tuesday morning. We would…
New details revealed in Signal Mountain identity theft case
WTVC has an update on a case that I hadn’t gotten around to reporting on yet, so…. The Signal Mountain Police Department has revealed new details in the case of a nurse’s assistant charged with identity theft. A post on the department’s Facebook page says 20-year-old Marcus Nix is accused of stealing information for several elderly victims…
LitecoinTalk Breach Details Scarce
I have no idea what happened four days ago, even after reading the subreddit, but it looks like litecointalk.org is down. Anyone have additional details? Merkle reports: A worrying announcement was posted on the Litecoin subreddit yesterday, as it turns out unidentified assailants have compromised the LitecoinTalk forums. All users had to reset their passwords…
SmeshApp removed from Play Store after allegations it was used by Pakistan to spy on Indian Army personnel
Mudit Mohilay reports that Google has removed SmeshApp from the Play Store. The app was reportedly being used by Pakistani intelligence agencies to spy upon Indian Army personnel. […] On the surface, SmeshApp appeared like your regular, run-of-the-mill IM app and is quite similar to WhatsApp and Telegram. However, once the app was installed —…