Ericka Chickowski reports: A new court case brought to bear against Professional Business Bank by Village View Escrow Inc. continued the battle waged over who’s to blame for hacking attacks that leave small business accounts drained following online password theft. Filed in late June in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles, the case is…
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New ACH Fraud Suit Filed
Tracey Kitten reports: A March 2010 incident of corporate account takeover has led to yet another legal dispute between a commercial customer and its former bank. [See the complaint.] California-based Village View Escrow Inc. on June 27 filed a complaint with the California Superior Court, Los Angeles, against Professional Business Bank, claiming the bank is liable for the $465,000 financial…
LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice
Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…
JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords
I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked. A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name. The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems. The picture gallery has been removed…
Hacker: JLAudio database hacked; users’ information posted online
The hacker known as Abhaxas (@Abhaxas on Twitter) has uploaded a database with what appears to be 4,827 JLAudio’s users’ first and last names, street addresses with city and zipcode, ages, userIDs, e-mail addresses, and plain text passwords. In a preface to the data dump, Abhaxas writes: I warned you guys multiple times, but it…
Toshiba confirms they were hacked; customers notified
Last week I noted that Toshiba appeared to have been hacked. Now they’ve confirmed it. John Oates reports: Toshiba says that unidentified hackers have stolen customer records belonging to 7,500 of its customers. Credit cards details were not compromised, but emails, addresses, passwords and phone numbers all went missing. Read more on The Register. A press release…