Ionut Ilascu reports: Cybercriminals leveraged a vulnerability in the Perspectives website and managed to access a database containing eCheck payment information for website transactions. It appears that intruders also managed to publish unauthorized advertisements on certain portions of the site, promoting abortion pills. […] The date of the incident has been traced to September 2014,…
Category: Hack
Australia’s charges against Anonymous member accused of government hack changing again
Violet Blue reports: On March 11, Adam Bennett — the radio voice of Anonymous, LoraxLive who was arrested last year for alleged computer crimes — will finally learn what he’s being charged with. This had been expected to happen this week. Instead, at the last minute, Australian Commonwealth prosecutors — for the third time since…
Briton arrested over hack into U.S. Department of Defense
Michael Holden reports: British detectives have arrested a man suspected of being part of a group which hacked into the U.S. Department of Defense last year, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Friday. The NCA said the 23-year-old, arrested in Sutton Coldfield in central England on Wednesday, is accused of taking part in the…
US watchdog: Anthem snubbed our security audits before and after enormous hack attack
Shaun Nichols reports: A year or so before American health insurer Anthem admitted it had been ruthlessly ransacked by hackers, a US federal watchdog had offered to audit the giant’s computer security – but was rebuffed. And, after miscreants looted Anthem’s servers and accessed up to 88.8 million private records, the watchdog again offered to audit the insurer’s…
Sony Ex-Employees File Amended Class Action Suit Over Hacking Attack
Ted Johnson reports: Nine former Sony employees have filed an amended class action lawsuit against Sony Pictures Entertainment, alleging that the studio failed to take adequate safeguards to protect personal information that was exposed in the hacking attack last year. “Following the breach, SPE has focused on its own remediation efforts, not on protecting employees’ sensitive…
Update to Vendini breach: Settlement reached with insurer
Back in September 2013, online ticket broker Vendini was sued by its insurer, who, not surprisingly, did not want to have to provide coverage for a breach that may have affected up to three million customers (previous coverage of the breach and aftermath linked from here). Now the law firm of King & Spalding reports: On February…