Brian Krebs reports: vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets. The vDOS database, obtained…
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33 Million Plaintext Passwords Stolen From QIP.ru Instant Messaging Service
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have stolen over 33 million user records from QIP.ru, an instant messaging service used predominantly in Russia. Softpedia received a sample of the data from HEROIC, a cybersecurity startup that protects users from hackers and cyber threats. The company claims to have received the data from a hacker using the Jabber ID [email protected]….
Hitsniffer ceases trading because of a malicious-insider data leak
Roi Perez reports: Hitsniffer, a website analytics company, has gone offline after an internal data breach which it claims was carried out by a former member of staff who helped set the company up. According to the company, the member of staff stole a database of all of its clients and is now emailing them…
Credit card information stolen from Abilene taco shop
Andrew McMillan reports: If you made a purchase at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop in Abilene in the past few weeks, you may want to check your bank statements – Abilene police say more than 50 people had their credit card information stolen from the restaurant. According to an incident report filed Wednesday, the identity thefts may…
Fired Tech Worker Denies Stealing Secrets
Nicholas Iovino reports the latest development in a case previously noted on this site: A fired Silicon Valley tech worker pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to computer fraud charges related to his alleged theft of trade secrets from his former employer last year. Jing Zeng, 43, of San Ramon, was arrested at the San Francisco International Airport in…
Danish tax authority pays source for names mentioned in Panama Papers
DPA reports: Denmark will pay an anonymous source for information about hundreds of Danish nationals mentioned in a data leak from a Panama-based law firm linked to tax-dodging schemes, the Danish minister of taxation said Wednesday. Karsten Lauritzen welcomed the fact that parliament’s tax committee broadly supported the scheme, but noted “there is a risk…