“It’s déjà vu all over again” — noted infosecurity expert Yogi Berra. Veronico Niko, a former Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services employee, has pleaded guilty to stealing names and Social Security numbers for use in a tax refund fraud scheme. Niko, her husband Thomas Marshall, Michael Williams, Mao Niko, and Mike Niko…
Category: Breach Incidents
FTC settles charges against Cord Blood Registry over data breach
Back in December 2010, a computer belonging to Cord Blood Registry (CBR) and a backup tape with customers’ information was stolen from an employee’s unattended vehicle. The breach was disclosed in February 2011, and I covered it on this blog, here. Today, the FTC announced that it had settled charges against CBR over the breach….
1337day mirror sites hacked by Injector & Sec4ever
Both 1337day mirror domains .org and .net have been hacked and left defaced by two hackers. The hackers who use the handle’s Injector & Sec4ever have left both 1337day.org and 1337day.net. The defacement carry’s no real messages besides an email for the administration to contact the hackers on. At time of publishing both sites appear to still be…
French Network of Chamber of Commerce Hacked
The french websites for the Network of Chamber of Commerce (www.cci.fr) has been hacked by Tunisian Cyber Army @TN_cyberarmy. The hackers first started of with an announcement that they had discovered a SQLi point on the site and posted a screen cap of it. > #SQLI discovred by #tunisiancyberarmy on france chamber of comerce @zataz @cyber_war_news @ehackernews…
Rex Mundi Claims to have sold Buy Way Data
Last week we made report that a hacker who has been extorting company’s to prevent data leaks was trying that on Buy Way. @RexMundi_Anon had given Buy Way, the finical credit company until Saturday the 26th to respond to a 20,000 EURO ransom for prevention of 580 credit loan applications being leaked. On Saturday Rex tweeted the following tweet stating that a company…
United States Sentencing Commission Hacked By Anonymous for #OpLastResort
Anonymous hacktivist have taken sights to the United States Sentencing Commission (https://www.ussc.gov/) in the name of #OpLastResort and Aaron Swartz. The main deface has occurred some time today with signs that it was coming late yesterday. The first signs that the site may come under attack or be already in control of hackers was a link posted over…