Kim Mi-ju reports: A single information trafficker managed to steal the personal data of more than 95,000 Korean credit card users – and sell it to thieves who created cloned credit cards, police said Sunday. Police said a Romanian used the Internet to install spyware in point-of-sale systems at 36 large discount stores, restaurants and…
Category: Hack
Atlassian hacked (update 1)
From the Atlassian company blog: Around 9pm U.S. PST Sunday evening, Atlassian detected a security breach on one of our internal systems. The breach potentially exposed passwords for customers who purchased Atlassian products before July 2008. During July 2008, we migrated our customer database into Atlassian Crowd, our identity management product, and all customer passwords…
FINRA Fines D.A. Davidson & Co. $375,000 for Failure to Protect Confidential Customer Information
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued the following press release today: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined D.A. Davidson & Co., of Great Falls, MT, $375,000 for its failure to protect confidential customer information by allowing an international crime group to improperly access and hack the confidential information…
No Child Left Inside Site Shut Down; Investigation Pending
Amanda Falcone reports from Connecticut: The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered its contractor to shut down nochildleftinside.org because someone hacked into the web site. The web site is associated with the state’s No Child Left Inside initiative, which was established to encourage families to enjoy the outdoors, and it is a place where…
Brokerage Account Hacker Gets 3 Years in Jail
A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…
HBDirect.com customers notified of hack
HBDirect.com suspects that its web site was breached and that customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and credit card numbers were stolen. In a letter to those affected which is not the typical letter I’m used to reading, company principal Paul Ballyk not only explained what an SQL injection attack is, but noted that…