Tim Willert reports: Secret Service agents and police investigating identity theft have uncovered more than 300 potential victims — nearly half of whom did business with a company in Bethany where a suspect worked. Between February and December, members of the Oklahoma City Economic and Identity Crimes Task Force seized dozens of stolen identification cards,…
Category: Business Sector
Zappos hacked; notifying 24+ million Zappos.com and 6pm.com customers of breach and to reset passwords
Online retailer Zappos has been hacked. Its CEO, Tony Hsieh, posted a copy of an email notification explaining the breach to all employees with a copy of the email notification sent to customers: The following email was sent to our employees today: Subject: Important – Security Dear Zappos Employees – Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully…
CoveritLive Warns Users of Possible Security Breach
While it isn’t indicated on its official site, the CoveritLive service has apparently been hacked and some personal user data may have been compromised, according to an email sent to subscribers this evening. The Live blogging technology is used by plenty of journalists, bloggers, and web sites as an easy way to blog live events….
UK: Namesco spits out phishy warning after credit card info leak
John Leyden reports: Namesco customers are angry over the domain name and hosting firm’s handling of a security breach that exposed their credit card details. A number of punters’ card details were leaked after hackers broke into Namesco’s systems. The web biz notified these customers as well as advising a larger number of its clients…
Tit for tat: Israeli and Saudi Arabian hackers dump credit card numbers
Okay, I don’t want to get caught up in this “tit for tat” credit card hacking and dumping that’s going on between individuals from Israel and Saudi Arabia, but given that Saudi banks initially firmly denied any hacks (which I had questioned as no one had said banks had been hacked), I thought this important…
Hacktivism, Friday edition: Dutch sites
An anonymous individual who tweets as @Ingratefully on Twitter has acquired and dumped data from two Dutch sites on Pastebin. Presumably this is in response to ISPs being ordered to block access to Pirate Bay. Pirate Bay has been the target of legal action in a number of countries for the past few years, with…