Wailin Wong reports: Chicago jeweler C.D. Peacock has sued a suburban information-technology consulting firm, alleging that the company’s negligence allowed hackers to access confidential customer financial data. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court. According to C.D. Peacock’s complaint, it hired Oak Brook-based BridgePoint Technologies for IT-related services in August 2009. In…
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Hacker attacks restaurant supplier and alternative dispute resolution center
A hacker known as Visi0nZ has dumped 307 customers’ data from Andy Catering Equipment Ltd. in London: first and last names, e-mail and postal addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and plain-text passwords. The hack was revealed on Monday. RSI’s Court ADR Resource Center was also attacked on Monday. The names, postal addresses, phone and…
Hackers attack three more law enforcement-related sites, dump data
A few more law enforcement-related web sites were hacked this past week, to add to the growing list: Travis Crum reports that the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association site was hacked and officers’ data dumped online: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for the people responsible for leaking the home addresses, home phone numbers…
Hackers Target Your Personal Info in DMV Database
Steven Dial reports from South Carolina: Hackers are trying to steal personal information from the DMV database and most of them are from another country. “It is cause for alarm for us and our information technology folks,” said JR Sanderson. Since January hackers have tried to get into the DMV database more than 100 times….
Follow-up: Spammers abusing DreamHost sites following January hack
Lucian Constantin reports a follow-up to a January breach involving DreamHost: The security breach suffered by DreamHost in January has resulted in hundreds of rogue PHP pages redirecting users to work-at-home scams, according to researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler. Read more on ComputerworldUK.
Law enforcement targeted by hackers
There have been a number of law enforcement-related web sites hacked since last June. Some of those hacks — like those involving the Arizona Department of Public Safety, BART, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, Baldwin County Sheriff’s office in Alabama, Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R.), the California Statewide Law…