This is the second relatively light sentence I’ve seen this week for identity-theft related cases. The first was a nurse in Colorado, now this one from Georgia. Caitlin Mullen reports: A DeKalb man charged with identity theft and deceptive practices was sentenced Wednesday to 60 months of probation. Edward McGee, 21, of the 1400 block…
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Update: Big Pond plugs data leak
Stephen Cauchi and Georgia Wilkins report: Telstra has scrambled to reconnect its BigPond internet services after a privacy breach that leaked personal customer information shut down its system for 24 hours. Up to 1 million BigPond users could not use email and other online services while the problem was being fixed. About 60,000 passwords were…
PA: Hackers Steal Washington Co. Customers’ Credit Card Info
The Secret Service is investigating after several customers of a Washington County restaurant had their credit card information stolen by hackers from overseas. Beginning Dec. 4, Jumpers Junction customers began reporting their credit card information as being stolen. Investigators said each person had recently paid for their food with a credit card at the restaurant….
Telstra internal website made public, releasing account details of up to one million customers
Michelle Ainsworth reports: Account details of up to one million Telstra customers have possibly been breached after an internal website was made public. The website listed Telstra customers on bundle plans and included their names, plan types, contact they had had with Telstra customer service and in some instances their account passwords, the Herald Sun…
Four Romanian nationals indicted for hacking Subway and 50 other merchants’ POS systems
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has issued a press release about an indictment that may relate to some breaches involving Subway Restaurant previously reported on this blog. The case was filed May 4, but the indictment has just been unsealed. Four Romanian nationals have been charged in federal court for their alleged participation in an…
Finnish travel service hacked; thousands of users’ passwords and e-mail addresses exposed
Another hack in Finland. A message on the home page of travel site Napsu.fi confirms that they were hacked on December 3 and that a list of registered users, usernames, email addresses and plain-text passwords were leaked. The firm is asking all registered users to change their passwords. From what I’ve seen so far, 11,976 usernames…