Wow. This kid got off lightly, compared to what would likely have happened here in the U.S. News & Star reports that Anthony Luke Fulton was given a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay both a £100 victim surcharge and £100 in compensation…
Category: Business Sector
Oilpro.Com Founder Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Hacking Into Competitor’s Computer System
DAVID W. KENT, the founder of professional networking website Oilpro.com (“Oilpro”), was arrested for charges relating to computer hacking and wire fraud. The charges stem from KENT’s alleged role in repeatedly hacking into a competitor’s database to steal customer information and attempting to sell Oilpro to the same company whose database KENT had hacked. KENT…
Norfolk Admirals’ data breach exposes customers’ names, other information
Kimberly Pierceall reports: A hacker posted several thousand Norfolk Admirals customers’ email accounts, addresses and names on Wednesday, but the team’s online security firm says the data breach affected only about 250 customers. Norfolk Admirals Vice President Joe Gregory said his online security firm eliminated duplicates and spam email addresses from the list, significantly winnowing…
Mattel nearly loses $3M to a phishing scam
Bryan Clark reports: A finance executive fell victim to a phishing scam that saw the Los Angeles-based maker of children’s toys wire a cool $3 million to Chinese hackers. Expertly timed during a period of corporate change, the email hit the inbox of the unnamed executive and requested a new vendor payment in the amount of…
Hackers Breach Law Firms, Including Cravath, Weil Gotshal
Remember a few days ago when I noted that the FBI had issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms? This is related…. Nicole Hong and Robin Sidel report: Hackers broke into the computer networks at some of the country’s most prestigious law firms, and federal investigators are exploring whether they stole confidential information for the purpose…
vBulletin Servers Hacked, Admins Force Password Reset for All Users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Administrators of the vBulletin forums have started a site-wide password reset operation after an unknown attacker has gained access to one of their servers. Last Thursday the vBulleting.org (sic) and vBulleting.com (sic) domains went offline for maintenance and remained so until Friday afternoon. As soon as the forums came back online, all…