Hutton Hotel in Nashville is notifying guests of a that first began on September 23, 2012. In their notification, they write that after being alerted to a potential problem by their payment processor, their outside consultants determined that unknown individuals had been able to install a program on the payment processing system in September 2012. The program could have…
Category: Business Sector
UK: Five men sentenced over insider breach helping corporate rival
From Thames Valley Police: Five men have been sentenced today (30/9) following an investigation by Thames Valley Police and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU). The men were originally arrested by Thames Valley Police in March last year, in an operation with the support of SEROCU. The investigation was then passed onto SEROCU’s…
California CPA firm hacked to file fraudulent returns
On August 15, 2016, Wheeler & Egger, CPAs, LLP discovered a data security incident involving their firm and some of their clients whose 2015 tax returns were on Extension. After thorough investigation, they have discovered that the perpetrator(s) hacked into their system, and between August 3rd and 9th 2016, fraudulently filed 45 client tax returns. Letters were mailed to…
FeverClan responds to notification of claimed breach
A claimed breach involving gaming community FeverClan, announced on Twitter last night, has FeverClan in response mode. @Allergically announced the hack: Feverclan.com with over 50,000 Users was hacked on 9/28/16 Hashed Passwords, Emails, Ip’s, and more.@pr0jekkt @FeverClan pic.twitter.com/MhzVuxMf7s — ️️️️ (@Allergically) September 29, 2016 It appears that @Pr0jekkt is taking credit for it: @Allergically @FeverClan…
NZME data accessed in security breach
Radio New Zealand reports: Data of about 76,000 people may have been leaked in a security breach of a cloud server used by media company NZME. The company, whose portfolio includes The New Zealand Herald, said data may have been accessed through a third party cloud server holding information collected through competitions and some client data….
InfoArmor: Yahoo Data Breach Investigation
Well, it seems InfoArmor is calling b.s. on claims that Yahoo! was hacked by state actors. The overview from their report: Yahoo was compromised in 2014 by a group of professional blackhats who were hired to compromise customer databases from a variety of different targeted organizations. Some of their initial targets, which occurred in 2012…