WRAL reports: A Cary woman has been charged with illegally accessing and altering computer files at Durham-based LED manufacturer Cree Inc., according to an arrest warrant. Huili Cui, 50, of 521 Denhoff Drive, is charged with felony accessing computers and larceny by employee. She was initially held in the Durham County jail under a $1…
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100 million accounts for VK, Russia’s Facebook, show up on dark web
Joseph Cox reports: Accounts for over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being traded on the digital underground. Breach notification site LeakedSource obtained the data and published an analysis on Sunday. The hacker known as Peace, meanwhile, listed the data for sale on a dark web marketplace. […] Peace provided Motherboard…
Banks: Credit Card Breach at CiCi’s Pizza
Brian Krebs reports: CiCi’s Pizza, an American fast food business based in Coppell, Texas with more than 500 stores in 35 states, appears to be the latest restaurant chain to struggle with a credit card breach. The data available so far suggests that hackers obtained access to card data at affected restaurants by posing as technical…
Cowboys Casino warns personal information may have been leaked in data breach
Chris Bowen reports: Cowboys Casino is investigating a possible data breach after its computer system was the target of a cyber-attack. The establishment says its IT experts took immediate actions and they are confident they have secured the system. It’s believed some client, employee and corporate information including names, contact information, and other personal data…
Major insurer does not have to cover restaurant chain’s data breach
Lyle Adriano reports that some of P.F. Chang’s breach-related costs are not covered by its insurance: A federal court ruled that Chubb Ltd. does not have to reimburse P.F. Chang’s for costs the restaurant chain charged by its credit card processor under its cyber policy. […] The Federal Court ultimately concluded that on several counts…
The huge Dropbox password leak that wasn’t
Graham Cluley reports: …as Brian Krebs reports, recent claims from identity theft protection firms that Dropbox has suffered a massive password breach appear to be erroneous. Troy Hunt – who knows a thing or two about verifying and responsibly disclosing data breaches – also chimed in, decrying that some had jumped to the conclusion that a serious…