Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the arrest of XU JIAQIANG for theft of a trade secret, in connection with XU’s theft of proprietary source code from XU’s former…
Category: Business Sector
Elephant Bar alerts customers to possible payment card breach
Ron Ruggless reports: CM Ebar LLC, parent to the Elephant Bar restaurants, warned customers who used credit cards at the 29-unit chain between August and December that their data may have been breached, the company said Tuesday. The casual-dining operator said it was alerted to the potential security breach on Nov. 3, and it has…
NullCrew hacker pleads guilty
Jon Seidel reports that NullCrew member Timothy J. French pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Chicago. NullCrew’s attacks on Bell Canada, University of Virginia, Spokeo, Comcast, and other entities have been covered in the past on this site (search NullCrew), and many of NullCrew’s “Fuck the System!” newsletters and YouTube videos remain available online. During one…
Blog of News Site “The Independent” Hacked, Leads to TeslaCrypto Ransomware
Joseph C. Chen reports: NOTE: This is a developing story. Please watch this space for updates as we continue to dig into the technical details of this attack. The blog page of one of the leading media sites in the United Kingdom, “The Independent” has been compromised, which may put its millions of readers at risk of getting…
Lawsuit: Former employee used computer program to steal trade secrets from Virginia Beach company
Scott Daugherty reports: A Virginia Beach construction company claims a former employee stole trade secrets earlier this year and provided them to a competitor. Unlike most such cases, however, officials with Atlantic Marine Construction Company aren’t arguing the employee stole their proposal sheets and other records before he was fired. Rather, the company claims Christopher…
UK: NexusMods reports database breach
Chris Scott Barr reports: Nexus Mods announced that they had a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but there’s good news. The database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013. So if you’ve registered for an account after that date, you’re probably safe. Also, if you’ve…