This has the makings of another AA situation where despite evidence, an entity initially claims that data were not compromised, only to have to walk back their claims later on. The New Indian Express reported: In what seemed to be the biggest data breach in India, a nondescript website called magicapk reportedly had access to data of…
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Extradition hearing set for Karim Baratov, Canadian accused of aiding Yahoo hackers
Andrew Blake has the update on a case we’ve been watching: An extradition hearing has been set in the case of Karim Baratov, a Canadian man wanted by U.S. prosecutors in relation to an international cybercrime ring implicated in hacking over a half-billion Yahoo accounts. Attorneys for Mr. Baratov and the Justice Department will argue…
Kansas ID theft suspects had 429 job applications
Today’s reminder about the need to secure and securely destroy PAPER records, too, comes to us from Kansas: A search warrant shows authorities are investigating two suspected identity thieves found with a box filled with hundreds of Dollar Tree job applications apparently obtained by going through trash containers in Wichita. The warrant was filed recently…
Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: Avanti Markets, a company whose self-service payment kiosks sit beside shelves of snacks and drinks in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America, has suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to those payment devices, the company has acknowledged. The breach may have jeopardized…
Massive WWE Leak Exposes 3 Million Wrestling Fans’ Addresses, Ethnicities And More
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open…
Pakistani Man Sentenced for Laundering Millions in Telecom Hacking Scheme
A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U.S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2008 to December 2012, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $19.6 million…