William Bastone and Andrew Goldberg report: In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun…
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FL: Hollywood Man Pleads Guilty In Million Dollar Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Judes Celestin, 36, of Hollywood, pled guilty for his role in an identity theft tax refund scheme that resulted in the receipt of approximately $1 million in…
PREIT discloses breach involving employee data hosted on UltiPro
Philadelphia-based PREIT (Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust) became the latest firm to disclose that its Human Resources information on employees and their dependents and beneficiaries had been accessed by an unknown third party from an UltiPro-hosted system. PREIT learned of the breach on April 16. In April, when Brian Krebs first reported on breaches associated…
Hacker Goes to Top Dutch Court in U.S. Extradition Fight
Maud van Gaal and David Voreacos report: Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite wanted by the U.S. on charges he helped lead a ring that hacked 17 companies including 7-Eleven Inc. and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ), is fighting a Dutch court ruling that would allow his extradition. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the nation’s top…
WooThemes users notified of payment card breach, 300 reports of fraud
Adam Greenberg reports: After about 300 cases of payment card fraud were reported within a few days, WooThemes, a provider of WordPress themes, began notifying users that three modified files were discovered on its server and that payment card data may have been intercepted during the checkout process. Read more on SC Magazine.
Target breach: 50,000 card numbers from Minn. for sale this week
Maury Glover reports: It’s been months since hackers stole the credit and debit card information of millions of Target customers, but the effects are far from over. In fact, thousands of Minnesota credit card numbers are currently for sale. […] In the wake of the breach, Target told customers not to cancel their credit cards…