Christopher Michael Sudlik, 22, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $110,932.71 in restitution. The sentence was announced yesterday by James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Sudlik had previously pled guilty for participating in #OpWisconsin with other members…
Category: Breach Incidents
NullCrew claims hack of Comcast mail servers
The hacker collective known as NullCrew has been busy. After making some waves with their hack of a Bell Canada subdomain operated by a third-party supplier, the hacking collective just announced a hack involving Comcast. As it did with Bell, the @NullCrew_FTS account on Twitter gave advanced notice that they would be announcing the hack…
Target Hackers Broke in Via HVAC Company – Krebs
Brian Krebs gets the scoop again: Last week, Target told reporters at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters that the initial intrusion into its systems was traced back to network credentials that were stolen from a third party vendor. Sources now tell KrebsOnSecurity that the vendor in question was a refrigeration, heating and air conditioning subcontractor that has worked at a…
White Lodging releases additional information about data breach investigation (updated)
Forgot to post this one the other day…. MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Feb. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Officials of White Lodging Services Corporation, an independent hotel management company, announce the suspected breach of point of sales systems from the period March 20 – December 16, 2013 at food and beverage outlets, such as restaurants and lounges, at 14 properties. In addition,…
MN: Former DNR employee enters plea in driver’s license snooping case
Nicole Norfleet reports: Former state employee John Hunt entered an Alford plea Tuesday to charges of breaching thousands of driver’s license files while he worked for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). During a plea settlement hearing in Ramsey County District Court, Hunt admitted that there was sufficient evidence for him to be found guilty…
RedHack hacks TTNET, Turkey’s largest ISP
Today well known hacker collective RedHack has announced a breach of data on Turkey’s biggest ISP. The attack is on TTNET (http://www.ttnet.com.tr) which is Turkey’s biggest internet service and other telecom services provider. RedHack has announced from the @Redhack_en twitter account that they are starting to dump the data of clients who are not ordinary…