Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced yesterday that a former business owner in Sparta, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in allowing his customers’ information to be stolen and used to promote a bank fraud scheme that used stolen mail and fake identifications to cash nearly…
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Talk Talk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy suing Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun for alleged breach of privacy
Remember when I expressed surprise on Twitter that The Telegraph, a UK publication, actually named this kid? Within hours, the publication silently deleted it, but there’s been so much reported online and on Twitter that his identity is pretty much out there already. Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyber attack on TalkTalk…
UK: Popular postcard app Touchnote suffers data breach
Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a data breach, resulting in customer information such as name and address being accessed. Read more on Android Central. From the FAQ on…
In a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked
Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate its systems and steal private customer information. By posing as an IT administrator and tricking a couple of Cox employees into giving up their login credentials, a…
Interstitial Cystitis Network notifies customers of payment card breach
The California-based Interstitial Cystitis Network is notifying customers of a breach after customers first alerted them that payment cards used on their site had been compromised. In a letter dated October 26, ICN writes that the ICN Mail Order Center (www.icnsales.com) was compromised during the period of April 6, 2015 and October 1, 2015; customers placing orders during…
How Hackers Breached Two Gambling Payment Providers To Harvest ‘Millions’ Of Records ) (UPDATED)
Two breaches seemed small and innocuous at the time, but weren’t. A timely reminder why entities should notify even when they think risk is low. Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: In 2009 and 2010 two separate attacks hit widely-used online gambling payments processors Moneybookers and Neteller. Though they initially appeared innocuous, it now seems both attacks saw millions of…