Mark Vandevelde reports that payday lender Wonga is notifying 270,000 customers that their personal details may have been acquired by a hacker. In related coverage, Shruti Tripathi Chopra of City A.M. reports: Personal details of 245,000 UK customers of payday lender Wonga may have been stolen in a data breach discovered last week. City A.M. understands that information including…
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The threat within: Arrests of former employees announced in two New Jersey cases
Jessica Mazzola reports: An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said. Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from…
Former Allegro worker accused of inserting ‘time bomb’ in company network
Craig S. Semon reports: A Shrewsbury man is accused of hacking into the main computer network of his former employer, Allegro MicroSystems, and uploading and inserting malicious computer programming code. Nimesh Patel, of 1 Ptarmigan Drive, Shrewsbury, is charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespassing and conversion. Read more on The Telegram.
Gamestop.com Investigating Possible Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Video game giant GameStop Corp. [NSYE: GME] says it is investigating reports that hackers may have siphoned credit card and customer data from its website — gamestop.com. The company acknowledged the investigation after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity. “GameStop recently received notification from a third party that it believed payment card data from cards…
Teen Hackers Stole $300,000 From a Travel Site and Used It to Buy a Ducati
Renaldo Gabriel reports: It was their ticket to life in the fast lane. A team of Indonesian hackers allegedly broke into the popular online ticketing site Tiket.com, stealing some Rp 4.1 billion ($308,000 USD) worth of airline tickets for the low-cost carrier Citilink. The mostly teenage hackers then sold the stolen tickets on Facebook, using…
Leak of diabetic patients’ data highlights risks of giving info to telemarketers
Personal and health information of 918,000 vulnerable seniors was exposed on the Internet for months by a software developer working on a project. No one would have even known about it if the leak hadn’t been found by a guy with “too much time on his hands.” Before you give your personal or health insurance…