Law enforcement in Miami has its hands full investigating tax refund fraud schemes. It doesn’t help when three law enforcement officers are involved in those schemes. Bernard Beliard, a Florida Department of Corrections officer assigned to the South Florida Reception Center, and Vital Frederick and Malinzky Bazile – two Miami Police Department officers – were arrested yesterday and charged in…
Category: Breach Incidents
Caribbean banks issue credit card alert (update 2)
I’ve continued to look for updates to recent reports of a breach affecting banks in the Bahamas. Is this related, I wonder: Banks and other financial institutions across the Caribbean have been impacted by a security breach at a financial institution in the region. This potential security breach can result in the compromise of a…
Time Warner Cable Support Service Hacked and Defaced by NullCrew
Time Warner Cable Inc has had its main website for its cable service hacked and left defaced with its embarrassing administration password. The attack has been carried out by members of NullCrew who have announced it on twitter and posted a screen capture to freezepage> Time Warner Cable: supportcenter.timewarnercable.com:8888/sdcxuser/ @youranonnews @thehackersnews @cyber_war_news @anonymousirc @anonymousopsirc @officialhmei7 — NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) March 6,…
LinkedIn Wins Dismissal of Privacy Lawsuit in California
Joel Rosenblatt reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), the biggest online professional-networking service, won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming it failed to follow industry standards and its own promises in encrypting user password information. The lawsuit, filed last year in federal court in San Jose, California, followed the company’s website being hacked and 6.5 million member passwords being posted…
South Korea Court Opens the Door for Unintentional Data Breach Collective Actions Abroad
Nathan A. Schacht comments on the recent ruling in a lawsuit against SK Communications: … According to reports about this case, the focus was on SK Communications’ violation of its duty to protect the personal data of its operations’ subscribers, including their names, dates of birth, cell numbers and social security numbers. Apparently, after an…
Tunisian Cyber Army Spree of Attacks on Financial Sites
Last month a hacker using the handle @TN_cyberarmy who goes by the team or group name of Tunisian Cyber Army had been on a small spree of attacks on financial based websites. The attacks range from a bank in America to two master card websites being exposed as having XSS exploits in them which are still…