Stefanie Murray reports: An Eastern Michigan University computer server was hacked into late Friday, potentially exposing employees’ direct deposit banking information, some university passwords and personal identification numbers, according to an e-mail sent to the EMU community tonight. The security breach occurred about 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to the e-mail, and was discovered Saturday by…
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Heartland Payment Systems, Discover Agree To $5 Mln Intrusion Settlement
Heartland Payment Systems said it reached a settlement agreement with Discover Financial Services (DFS) related to the 2008 criminal intrusion of Heartland’s payment system environment. Under the agreement, Heartland would pay Discover $5 million, resolving all issues related to the 2008 intrusion. “This settlement marks our final agreement with a card brand related to the…
NZ: University warns students on hacking
Jared Savage reports: University students have been warned to watch out for anyone trying to steal their identity after a computer server holding personal information was hacked. An email sent this week by Stephen Whiteside, at the University of Auckland, said unauthorised parties had accessed a single server holding information such as name, date of…
Researcher Creates Clearinghouse Of 14 Million Hacked Passwords
Andy Greenberg reports: Canadian researcher Ron Bowes has created a sort of Wall of Sheep for the entire Internet. By simply collecting all the publicly-spilled repositories of users’ passwords from recent hacking incidents, he’s created a clearinghouse for stolen passwords on his Web site–14,488,929 distinct passwords to be exact, collected from 32,943,045 users. Bowes didn’t…
Confessions of an ATM Hacker
Tracy Kitten writes: I caught up this week with Barnaby Jack, the so-called ethical hacker who cracked the operating systems of two retail ATMs during last month’s Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Vegas. Jack, who heads research for IOActive Labs, a privately held computer and network security firm in San Francisco, hacked two commonly…
AU: Hacker hits other councils across Ballarat region (update)
Benjamin Preiss reports that Ballarat Council was not the only council to have had their network compromised: Councils throughout western Victoria are counting the cost of a security breach to their online networks. The councils have undertaken security reviews and may conduct upgrades following illegal access to their systems. Yesterday it remained unclear how much…