Zhan Jie reports: Four suspects have been detained for obtaining user information illegally from one of China’s largest e-commerce websites and stealing money from its user accounts, Xinhua News Agency reported today. More than 2,000 customers of 360buy.com fell victim to the information leak and lost more than 30,000 yuan (US$4,785) in total, Beijing prosecutors…
Category: Business Sector
TeamPoison still active, attacks governments and corporations
TeamPoison has been busy, it seems, despite the arrest of one of their members. In a tweet on May 3, the group announced they had hacked the government of Australia: Australian Goverment Owned by TeaMp0isoN : Listen to your citizens : pastebay.net/818484 #TeaMp0isoN — TeaMp0isoN (@TeaMp0isoN__) May 3, 2012 In a statement preceding the data, the…
Four Irish, British suspects helped Stratfor hack: U.S.
I updated specific incident reports on DataLossDB.org yesterday, but thought I should mention this here, too. Basil Katz of Reuters reports: Federal prosecutors said four Irish and British men charged in a crackdown on the international hacking group Anonymous also helped breach the security analysis company Stratfor last year. In an indictment made public on…
eUKhost hacked by UrduHack; billing system accessed
On April 28, eUKhost posted an alert on their web site: In the past 24 hours we have been made aware that there has been a compromise of our billing system. Although the method of the compromise remains unclear, we can confirm that an administrator level login was compromised and an IP address added to…
CA: Tossed tax files found
Beatriz E. Valenzuela reports that a bag of discarded tax files was found behind a Hesperia business. Thankfully, it was found by someone in law enforcement: “It was a black canvas bag full of payroll files,” Hill said, with personal information such as Social Security numbers. “There were 12 to 14 bundles of files and…
Six charged in skimming ring at Wrigley Field, Chicago restaurants
Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced criminal charges against six defendants alleging they illegally obtained personal banking information from patrons dining and visiting Chicago area restaurants and attractions, including Wrigley Field and Magnificent Mile’s RL Restaurant. Defendants Joseph Woods, Alex Houston, Jenette Farrar, Essence S. Houston and Kenyetta Davis were arraigned earlier yesterday in Cook County…