Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…
Category: Business Sector
Hacker claims breach of 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals seeking jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job applicants. As many as 12 data files containing detailed information on job applicants were publicly posted today after…
Gegevens 800.000 Nederlanders gestolen door hacker (800,000 Dutch data stolen by hackers)
Via Google translation: The databases of several major websites are stolen by criminals after a Proserve internet server was hacked. In total, data from approximately 800,000 persons have been stolen. These large databases, including Q-Music, Stedin, the Telegraaf Media Groep café, and various online stores such as Pleinshoppen, Internetbikes en Brekelmans Modelbouw. Read more on…
The Consumerist resets passwords following breach
The Consumerist seems to have had a security breach. Their blog posts are light on details, though: On July 15, they wrote: As some Consumerist readers have noted, the site has been down twice in the past week and we promised an explanation, which follows. We first took the site down late Wednesday afternoon, when…
CA: Customers at Orcutt Burger Restaurant Hit With Debit Card Fraud
Rachel Laine reports: Customers at a local restaurant are hit with debit card fraud. The Coast Hills Federal Credit Union is sending out an alert about the Orcutt Burger Restaurant. The credit union says it has stopped all signature-based debit transactions to prevent further theft from any debit card activity. Coast Hills says customers can still…
Brewster’s Address Book App Briefly Exposes Ashton Kutcher’s & Others’ Private Data; Company Says It’s Fixed
Sarah Perez reports: Brewster, the hot, new personalized address book app for iPhone, launched to much fanfare this week. But it also launched with a concerning bug. Some users reported they had the ability to see the personal contact information for people they shouldn’t have had access to, including the likes of one Mr. Ashton…