Maryke Penman reports: Overseas hackers have conned three Auckland businesses out of tens of thousands of dollars in an elaborate email scam. The Albany and Devonport-based businesses fell victim to the ruse when placing email orders with Chinese suppliers. Rosedale dive and spearfishing retailer Wettie was targeted when owner Darren Shields placed an order with…
Category: Hack
Ca: Brandon University hacked; learned of breach from hacker (UPDATED)
One of the Brandon University servers was hacked over the Thanksgiving long weekend. Brandon University President Dr. Deborah Poff stated in an email sent to students and administration on the morning of Friday, October 18th that the university had received evidence confirming access by an unauthorized individual of one of the forty servers in the computer…
Update: $380k spent investigating, cleaning up after Ferris State’s online security breach
Brian McVicar reports the costs of the Ferris State University breach covered on this blog in August. A total of $380,000 was spent investigating and providing services for those affected by a data security breach at Ferris State University that put at risk personal information of 62,000 people, according to a university report. The report, obtained through…
Update: Dept. of Energy hack affected 7.5x as many individuals as originally reported
Kudos to Mathew J. Schwartz of InformationWeek for following up on the July Dept. of Energy hack. In August, Schwartz reported that the breach involved an outdated version of ColdFusion. In September, he reported that the number affected was not 14,000 – as originally estimated by DOE – but about 53,000. Today, Schwartz calls our…
Pittsburgh Couple Sentenced To Probation And Community Service In Computer Hacking Case
A Pittsburgh couple have been sentenced in federal court today on their conviction of recklessly damaging a computer and password trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced last week. The defendants had pleaded guilty in June. United States District Judge David S. Cercone imposed the sentence on Jonathan Cunningham, 29, and Alyson Cunningham, 26….
We don’t store credit card data…. oh wait, we are storing it?
A firm can have a great policy of not storing credit card numbers, but if the policy isn’t followed by staff, trouble can result. eReplacementParts.com learned this lesson the hard way. They discovered that despite their non-storage policy, credit card information of some customers had been stored. In some cases, the storage was due to…