Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…
Category: Breach Incidents
20,000 Clear Text Account Details Leaked From The Himalayan Times By @SirLeakAlot
A hacker using the twitter handle @SirLeakAlot has announced a fairly big leak of accounts in which all the passwords have been stored in clear text. The attack which is on the well known Nepal based website, The Himalayan Times has seen all administration and user accounts leaked from the site via a private paste site posting by @SirLeakAlot….
50,000 Accounts Leaked From ITWallStreet.com by @MidasBank
A member of Team Ghost Shell (@TeamGhostShell) has contacted us with a huge leak of accounts and other personal information that comes from a well known and widely used wall street based website. The site Itwallstreet.com was attacked by a member using the twitter handle @MidasBank aka Masakaki. In the leak comes a short message which…
Skype Source Code Leaked
Over the past few weeks we have been seeing many different high profile names becoming victim to hackers. One of the latest appears to be Skype the well known voice messaging and internet phone system. The attack has seen 3 torrent files being released which include a reversed engineered copy of the skype protocol, the…
Hacker claims breach of 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals seeking jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job applicants. As many as 12 data files containing detailed information on job applicants were publicly posted today after…
MN: Bankers’ breaches to help ID theft ring lead to prison
Dan Browning reports: Two former bankers convicted of aggravated identity theft and helping an international crime organization based in the Twin Cities to bilk more than $50 million from U.S. banks apologized for their crimes Wednesday and pleaded with a judge to go easy on them. But Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis flatly rejected…