Home lighting and furnishings retailer Bellacor has notified some of its web site customers of a recent breach. In their letter , a copy of which was posted on California’s breach report site, President and CEO James Lawrence informed those affected that their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and encrypted credit card numbers with security codes…
Category: Business Sector
Woman sentenced in $9 million ATM hacking
A participant in the November, 2008 WorldPay hack that resulted in $9 million run on ATM machines was just sentenced this week. Read about it on AJC.
UK: Children’s private and sensitive records leaked on internet from Independent Schools Guide site
Jason Lewis reports: Sensitive Information about hundreds of children, including details of their behavioural problems, has been leaked on the internet after an alleged cyber attack on a company advising parents about applying for top independent schools. The security breach led to the publication of 1,367 private records, including the names and addresses of pupils…
Georgia Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Crimes
A tax return preparer from Macon, Ga., pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false claim for tax refund, theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue (IRS) announced. According to court documents, Willie C. Grant is a former tax return preparer who used many of his former clients’…
Road Runner Safe Storage’s Security Breach (updated)
Seen on dslreports.com: “Dear Customer, We are writing to inform you of a recent security incident involving your Road Runner Safe Storage account, which may have exposed your password. Recently, an unauthorized third party accessed one of our databases. As soon as we learned of the attack, we limited all access to the database and…
Half a million credit cards stolen from Aussie business
Darren Pauli reports: An Eastern European crime syndicate has hacked into a small Australian business and stolen details of half a million credit cards from the company’s network. It was suspected the attack could result in more than $25 million in fraudulent transactions. The Australian Federal Police, together with foreign national law enforcement agencies, are…