Back in July, I blogged about pizza store chains being hacked. One of them was Extreme Pizza, who had received reports of card fraud from 16 of their west coast franchises after a POS hack in August 2010. Now they’re back in the news with reports of a more recent compromise affecting customers in…
Category: Business Sector
Songs Fever gets dump instead of downloads
The message at the top of the data dump from “LOLIH4X0RDU” was to the point: Songs Fever dump. Dumbasses CHECK FOR SECURITY! (DB also had CC information, but ill leave it out of here.) The data from Pakistani-based Songs Fever, which were also posted on http://hack4cash.net/songsfever.html, contained 1,344 usernames, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords and…
250k users exposed in Naijaloaded hack
Missed this one while getting ready for Thanksgiving! Darren Pauli reports: Almost 250,000 user details of popular Nigerian youth forum Naijaloaded have been exposed after the site was hacked. A hacker by the name of TheMrX uploaded a shell on the website and accessed its 42mb user database. The database contained names, usenames, passwords and…
Nelnet employee accused of misusing customer info
Federal prosecutors have charged a Nelnet [National Education Loan Network] employee with fraud after she allegedly used customers’ information to apply for personal loans. Jovita D. Benford, 23, of Lincoln was charged with unauthorized computer access Monday in U.S. District Court. A screen recording of her computer by Nelnet found she completed pre-paid credit card applications…
Update: Lone Star Steakhouse settles complaint by Kansas AG; management firm pay $200,000 for improperly dumping employee records
Back in March, I covered a breach involving Lone Star Business Solutions. Now KWCH reports that as a result of their news coverage and a resulting investigation by the Attorney General Derek Schmidt, LS Management, the management firm for Lone Star Steakhouse, will pay a fine of $200,000 – the largest consumer protection fine ever…
Globe and Mail online classroom hacked – again and again? Wake up, Globe and Mail!
Well, I posted this to DataLossDB.org the other day, but seem to have forgotten to have posted it here. Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, had their online classroom site hacked (http://globeclassroom.ca). The hack was disclosed on Pastebin on November 22, at which time I created an entry for it on DLDB. I then tried…