John Irving Wheeler, 31 years old, of Montgomery, was sentenced to serve 210 months of incarceration on October 31, 2013. Wheeler was also ordered to pay one million dollars in restitution to the States of Georgia and Michigan. Wheeler pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud on April…
Category: Breach Incidents
North Georgia Tech Students Asked to be Alert After Possible Security Breach
David Stephens reports: Maybe not the way some college students wanted to start off the month of November, as North Georgia Technical College is advising some students to keep a close eye on their credit reports – that after one of their student data bases may have been breached. According to college spokesperson Sandra Maughon,…
Harbor Freight Tools USA notifies customers that payment processing system was hacked (updated)
Harbor Freight Tools USA has been notifying customers of a hack that occurred in May and was discovered on July 2. In their letter, they write: Over the summer, Harbor Freight Tools’ payment processing system was illegally attacked by cyber-criminals. The attack was similar to attacks reported by other national retailers. In response, we immediately…
After investigative report reveals database compromise, Dun & Bradstreet notifies consumers (updated)
Last month, Brian Krebs revealed that SSNDOB, an identity theft service, operated a botnet that tapped into some of the biggest databases in the country to get the information they sold. One of those firms was Dun & Bradstreet: Two other compromised systems were located inside the networks of Dun & Bradstreet, a Short Hills,…
Hackers compromise official PHP website, infect visitors with malware (updated)
Dan Goodin reports: Maintainers of the open-source PHP programming language have locked down the php.net website after discovering two of its servers were hacked to host malicious code designed to surreptitiously install malware on visitors’ computers. The compromise was discovered Thursday morning by Google’s safe browsing service, which helps the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers automatically…
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data publishes reports on two investigation into data security at the Hong Kong Police Department
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has released two reports on investigations involving possible violations of the Data Protection Ordinance. Both reports involve the Hong Kong Police Department. The first investigation involved the leakage of an HKPD document containing personally identifiable information via Foxy (a file-sharing program). Two instances…