David McAfee reports: The Home Depot Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court Tuesday, in which First Choice Federal Credit Union claims it suffered losses as a result of the home improvement store’s recent data breach — marking the first such suit brought by a financial institution. Read more on…
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Experts Condemn eBay After XSS Attack Puts Users At Risk
Tom Jowitt reports: The attack on eBay was a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, in which users were redirected to a spoof website designed to steal their credentials. It is not known at this stage, how many users have been affected, said the BBC. “It would be nice to think that eBay, one of the world’s most popular…
Hacker Team Infiltrates U.S. Airlines Computer Mainframe
Rachel Donald reports: According to information from an U.S. Senate Panel, the U.S. Airlines [sic] computer system was recently infiltrated by hackers in association with the Chinese government. The same hackers also entered the computer systems of other companies, especially tech companies or contractors with involvement in U.S. troops or military equipment management. The news…
Senior IT worker at top tech law firm arrested for insider trading
Joe Mullin reports: A senior IT employee with the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has been arrested for grabbing the firm’s confidential client information and using it to trade stocks. FBI agents arrested 41-year-old Dimitry Braverman at his San Mateo, California, home on Tuesday morning, according to a report in the New York Law Journal. He was released…
NEAT Management Group joins stolen laptop club
Tim McCoy & Associates (dba NEAT Management Group) is notifying employees, partnering agents, and insurance carriers that their names, social security numbers, dates of birth, contact information, and in some cases, employer identification number, were on an unencrypted laptop stolen from a software programmer. The laptop theft occurred August 27, but it appears that NEAT did…
Home Depot notifies New Hampshire of breach
This just in: Hogan Lovells, attorneys for Home Depot, sent the New Hampshire Attorney General a notification of the breach. Their letter, dated September 9, reiterates that they first learned of a possible breach on September 2 and confirmed it on September 9. Home Depot still doesn’t have exact numbers, it seems. The letter says…