Manchester – An estimated 650,000 of Mayor Frank Guinta’s closest friends received messages sent from his city e-mail account Wednesday night and early Thanksgiving Day. Well, maybe not his friends. Someone hacked the mayor’s City Hall account and used it to send the 650,000 messages. Guinta yesterday said he found out about the messaging on…
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Hackers steal credit-card numbers from restaurant customers
Theodore Decker reports: Diners who frequent a popular Downtown restaurant should review their charge-card statements because hackers broke into its computer system to loot debit- and credit-card numbers, police said today. Between 30 and 50 people have reported fraudulent charges on their accounts, and Columbus detectives said that anyone who used a charge card at…
Risky business: Remote Desktop opened the door for Aloha hackers
When nine restaurants in Louisiana and Mississippi filed lawsuits against Radiant Systems and its Louisiana distributor, they may have represented only the tip of a substantial iceberg of hacks affecting restaurants that used Radiant Systems’ Aloha POS system. It seems that the scope of the problem is first coming to the public’s attention approximately one…
TN: Farmers Insurance Clients’ Info Hacked
Jeremy Finley reports: A big insurance company has a problem with its computers. Federal agents searched two middle Tennessee homes after someone hacked into Farmers Insurance customers’ records. […] According to a statement sent to the Channel 4 I-Team from Farmers Insurance, someone obtained unauthorized computer access to some of their customers’ information in Nashville……..
Radiant Systems and Computer World responsible for breach affecting restaurants – lawsuit
There’s been a lot of coverage of the lawsuits against Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processor fined by both Visa and Mastercard for not being PCI-DSS compliant. Now a class-action lawsuit by seven restaurants claims that dozens of restaurants may have become victims of card fraud because systems provided to the restaurants by Radiant Systems…
Ca: Hacker put farmers’ records at risk
Bill Curry reports: An amateur hacker attacked two government servers at Agriculture Canada, putting at risk about 60,000 personal-data records of Canadian farmers, according to the Privacy Commissioner’s annual report. The report lists various privacy breaches that came to the Commissioner’s attention over the past year, but Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said she was at a…