Josh Gerstein reports: A federal appeals court has denied a last-ditch reprieve for a journalist sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted in a hacking case. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday denying former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys’ plea to remain free while he appeals his convictions….
Category: Business Sector
MO: Alleged identity thieves target local car dealership customers
Russell Kinsaul reports: Police say three suspects are indicted for running an in-depth identity theft ring that racked up thousands in fraudulent purchases after stealing customer’s personal information from a local car dealership. […] Jesse Chitwood, 34, Jessica Franklin, 37, and John Townsend, 35, were charged in a federal indictment on multiple counts of identity…
Beggars Group Hacked, Warns Customers of Data Breach
Colin Stutz reports: Leading independent record label conglomerate Beggars Group had its online stores hacked in May, with costumers’ confidential information potentially compromised. Matador Direct — which distributes for 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, Young Turks, True Panther, XL Recordings and Beggars Arkive in the United States — sent a letter last week explaining that customers who ordered…
Cici’s Pizza: Card Breach at 130+ Locations
Brian Krebs reports: Cici’s Pizza, a Coppell, Texas-based fast-casual restaurant chain, today acknowledged a credit card breach at more than 135 locations. The disclosure comes more than a month after KrebsOnSecurity first broke the news of the intrusion, offering readers a sneak peak inside the sprawling cybercrime machine that thieves used to siphon card data from Cici’s customers…
Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
Tim Johnson reports: The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an Illinois internet retailer: Pay two Bitcoins, or about $500 at the time, and the intruder would “remove all bugs on your shop!” Such demands are…
Saint John Development Corporation finds cyber attack damage
Rachel Cave reports: The Saint John Development Corporation says it’s working to restore an annual report that it lost to a cyber attack in early 2015. “We lost a lot of our data,” said General Manager Kent MacIntyre. “We had some [Saint John] city IT people working with us to try to recover that but…