This week anonymous hackers have announced an attacked on the united states governments state departments (www.state.gov) website. The attack was announced in normal fashion on twitter and has been posted to the pastebin hosted by par-anoia.net and comes with 1 clear message that it has been done in the name of Aaron Swaztz. "Aaron Swartz this is for you,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Magistrate Recommends Dismissal with Prejudice of Claims Against Global Payments
Craig Hoffman writes: Global Payments, which processes credit card transactions, announced on March 30, 2012 that an unauthorized person gained access to a portion of its processing system. Global Payments later disclosed that Track 2 data (card number, expiration date, verification code but not cardholder name or address) of 1.5 million cardholders were taken. Three…
Central Hudson Cyber Attack Investigation Progress
Yesterday, Central Hudson Gas & Electric detected an intrusion and immediately alerted customers to the possibility that their auto-pay bank account information may have been accessed. Today they just issued the following update: Potentially Affected Customers to be Offered Free Credit Monitoring Central Hudson is continuing its investigation into a weekend cyber-security attack within its…
This could be big…
Developing…. It seems that every bank in the Bahamas has been notified of a breach at a foreign processor or acquiring bank. Most of the banks do not yet know how many of their customers’ card numbers are compromised, and while some banks have already started re-issuing cards, others are taking a wait-and-see approach. The…
CO: FBI asked to aid probe of Iron Horse breach (updated)
Shane Benjamin reports: The Durango Police Department has requested the FBI’s help to investigate widespread credit card fraud that targeted numerous people registered for this year’s Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. Meanwhile, race officials worked Friday to identify the source of the security breach, said Gaige Sippy, director of the event. “We are still trying to…
Plaintiffs failed to demonstrate injury, so please toss the case – Sony
[Sony Gaming Networks and Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, case number 3:11-md-02258 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California] Juan Carlos Rodriguez reports that Sony Corp. is trying again to get the amended complaint about it tossed. The lawsuit stems from the massive hack of its PlayStation and Qriocity networks in April 2011….