Neil MacLucas of Dow Jones Newswires reports: Switzerland has confirmed the arrest in Spain of Herve Falciani and are now seeking extradition of the Italian-French citizen being sought by police in connection with the theft of customer data from the Geneva branch of HSBC Private Bank. […] Copies of the HSBC data, which lists the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Florida Tax Preparer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
Ernst Pierre, a Port St. Lucie, Fla., tax preparer, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced. Pierre was charged with a scheme to file false federal income tax returns using stolen identity information. Pierre…
Gamigo breach exposed 8.24 million passwords, and now they’re public
JR Brookwalter reports: Gamigo, an online game publisher based in Germany, was the subject of a security breach back in late February – but apparently, the worse was yet to come. After notifying its customers about the security breach back on March 1 via email, the email addresses and encrypted passwords of all 8.24 million…
IL: Steakhouse Beefs Up Security
Jeremy Clements reports: The owner of an Alton restaurant is reaching out to customers to let them know that they have stepped up security to prevent another credit card scam from occurring. Two years ago five people, including two employees of Amarillo Tex’s Steakhouse and Saloon were caught skimming customers credit card numbers. Since that…
Webroot website vulnerable to XSS attack by @MR_Boter of NetBashers
A long time away but they have returned here and there and now they have sent us a new XSS on a well known anti security/anti malware for home/company and mobile website. The target is https://www.webroot.com and the attack has been on one of its audit pages. The exact URL of the attack has been censored to prevent any…
Cam4Bucks Hacked, Source Leaked By @lulz_much_lulz
A hacker using the twitter handle @lulz_much_lulz has just announced a leak of source code that belongs to a well known cams website. The website cam4bucks www.cam4bucks.com allows people to sign up and start their own cam shows with the chance of earning money from it. @lulz_much_lulz has announce that a 77mb compressed file that has been uploaded…