Another insider breach involving bank personnel: Randy Arlan Mainwaring, 41, former manager of the Thurston Branch of Key Bank in Springfield, Oregon, pled guilty to identity theft and bank fraud in federal court Monday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 17, 2012 before U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan. In pleading guilty, Mainwaring…
Category: Breach Incidents
TPB Release Message in light of VirginMedia Attacks By Anonymous
content/images/gallery/random3/virginmedia-com-ddos.png Over the past few months Internet censorship has got fairly out of control with many governments putting pressure on ISP’s to block to sites that assist in downloading of so called illegal files. Virgin media has become victim to attacks for blocking its customers from accessing well known torrent site The Pirate Bay. The attack which started some…
Chinese Ministry of Public Security Hacked, Data Leaked
OpChinadownfall has increased the amount of sites that belong to the Chinese government to be attacked, one of the latest ones is the Ministry of Public Safety (https://www.mps.gov.cn). The hacks which come from @Drone547 have only leaked a small amount of admin accounts, 6 in total. at the bottom of the leak is the following note: "My attacks are usually…
7 MIT subdomains hacked and defaced by 1923Turk Group
content/images/gallery/random3/mit-hacked.png Turkish hackers using the handle 1923Turk Group have attacked one fo the most well known Technology Institute MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The attacks which have been posted on the groups zone-h page along with the other 190,000+ defacements on the 8th of may. At time of publishing it would appear that MIT has fixed or restored the sites. In…
Cn: 4 detained in 360buy.com data leak and online thefts
Zhan Jie reports: Four suspects have been detained for obtaining user information illegally from one of China’s largest e-commerce websites and stealing money from its user accounts, Xinhua News Agency reported today. More than 2,000 customers of 360buy.com fell victim to the information leak and lost more than 30,000 yuan (US$4,785) in total, Beijing prosecutors…
TX: Former Capital One Bank employee pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Jamal Gerard Mose-Burrel, 22, of Houston, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft last week. Mose-Burrel, who formerly worked for Capital One Bank, admitted that he used Capital One Bank systems to provide a co-conspirator identified only as “T.J.” with the personal information and bank account information of…