Neal Morton reports: The credit card information of some of the Bike Waiter‘s customers may have been exposed as the result of a privacy breach, the meal delivery service said Tuesday in an email to customers. Shane Broussard, president of Bike Waiter LLC, did not disclose exactly how many customers might be affected, but in…
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CA: Parents: Hacking in school reaches beyond 11 facing expulsion
Lauren Steussy and Melody Petersen have an update to a breach previously reported on this blog: Parents of some of the students accused of cheating at Corona del Mar High School are questioning why their children have been targeted for expulsion, arguing the scope of the scandal spans far more widely. In letters sent recently to…
McGuire’s Irish Pub customer credit card data stolen by hackers
Dennis Pillion reports: The restaurant group behind the iconic McGuire’s Irish Pub locations in Pensacola and Destin announced that hackers gained access to their computer system for a period of 90 days, ending in December 2013. According to a report in the Pensacola News Journal, the McGuire Management Group does not know how many credit card…
YahooXtra email accounts compromised following security breach
ANI reports: Some of the user accounts of Telecom’s YahooXtra have been reportedly compromised, following a security breach, which is apparently affecting non-Telecom customers as well. Telecom said that Yahoo had acknowledged an email security breach that compromised some YahooXtra email accounts. According to a website, spokeswoman Lucy Fullarton said that Yahoo was investigating the…
‘Biggest’ global hacking network busted, Pune man held
Neeraj Chauhan of TNN reports: In what is being termed as the biggest international hacking scandal, possibly involving corporates, associations and big individuals, coordinated raids were conducted by investigative agencies in India, China and Romania, on the basis of intelligence fromFederal Bureau of Investigation about the “organised hacking” happening in three countries and others. In India, the Central Bureau…
Guccifer Arrested: Marcel Lazăr Lehel ID’d As Hacker Who Uncovered George W. Bush Paintings, Colin Powell Affair Allegations
Howard Koplowitz reports: Guccifer, the hacker who infiltrated the email accounts of influential Americans and released former President George W. Bush’s paintings and exposed an alleged affair of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, was arrested Wednesday in Romania. Guccifer has been identified as 42-year-old Marcel Lazăr Lehel, a former cab driver who was sentenced…