News-Press.com reports: A former employee of Home Lynx Home Loans on College Parkway is accused of hacking into the company’s computer system and stealing confidential customer information, potential customer lists and marketing material. The former employee, whose name was not available in the sheriff’s report, was terminated in June. The owner of the company told…
Category: Hack
Staring into the abyss: how many breaches go unreported?
While compiling data breach reports submitted to Maine a few months ago, one of the things I discovered (no pun intended), was that Discover submits batched reports to at least two states. Their reports indicate how many Discover card members are affected by the incidents, but their logs don’t provide much detail about the incidents…
Pirate Bay User Database Exploited By Spammers
Ernesto writes that a recent hack of The Pirate Bay may be linked to some recent spam users have been receiving: Two months ago a group of Argentinian hackers successfully gained access to The Pirate Bay’s admin panel through a security breach. At the time, the hackers stated that they didn’t want to exploit the vulnerability,…
Security problems reported by ATBHost.net
An administrator ATBHost.net has posted an alert in their forum: On September 28, 2010 at around 3:30 pm US Central Standard Time, there was a flood attack against ATBHost.net MySQL Server. The Attack was from inside the server, before we acquire the company a couple of hackers/crackers with bad intentions were allowed to have a…
French police bust network of mobile phone hackers
A report by AFP provides another reminder of how costly insider breaches can be: French police have busted a network of mobile phone hackers, a fraud worth millions of euros, and arrested nine people, including employees of cellular phone companies, investigators said Sunday. Three people were still in custody Sunday following the arrests across the…
(Update) NE: Police Track Credit Card Thefts
More on the rash of credit card and debit card fraud being reported in the Lincoln, Nebraska area that was reported earlier this week. KETV reports: Lincoln police said someone who hacked into a national database may be responsible for helping identity thieves go on shopping sprees with credit card numbers. Investigators said more than…