United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced Friday that United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Pavel Abramyan, 27, of Rancho Cordova, to three and a half years in federal prison for possessing stolen credit card numbers. Abramyan pleaded guilty on October 15, 2009. This case was the product of an investigation by…
Category: Business Sector
GA officials: Hacking was outside eatery
Rodney Manly reports: A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant’s lawyer said Friday. “The breach happened either with the computing end of it or at the payment processing center….
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts
Robert McMillan reports: Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole. Kirllos was first spotted by researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group a few weeks after he claimed…
Picante restaurant is victim of credit card scam
Frances Dinkelspiel reports: Picante, the popular Mexican restaurant on 6th Street [in Berkeley, California] , has been the target of an international credit card fraud operation, its owner says today. Thieves from as far away as Russia managed to penetrate the restaurant’s credit card encryption system and steal the numbers of dozens of customers, says…
Coincidence or….?
A glance at NYS’s Consumer Protection breach log for May shows that the state received 12 notifications yesterday — and all of them were hacking incidents. Twelve received in one day? Only one of them has been reported on this site previously (Monoprice). The numbers indicate the reported number of NYS residents affected: 05/06/2010 –…
Portland Resident Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Identity of Former Co-Worker
James Nolan Kirkes, 39, of Portland was sentenced to two years in federal prison Tuesday in U. S. District Court for stealing the identity of a former co-worker and using the name and password of the person to access a computer and obtain information relating to an employment dispute with Kirkes’ former employer. During the…