Michael LaForgia reports that the FBI has busted an ID theft ring based in Palm Beach County, Florida. Seven arrests have been made. In June and July, the ring made 32 fake IDs using information stolen from people in Florida, California and other states and showed agents a list of 110 real identities to choose…
Category: Hack
Police detains hacker, who attacked server, network of big company in North Bulgaria
Authorities detained a hacker, who attacked the local network and servers of a big company based in the Northern town of Ruse, the press office of the Interior Ministry announced. […] The investigation revealed that the hacker used to make attempts against company’s network and server in the time period between June 26 – July…
NZ: I know what you ate last summer
Patrick Gray writes: The online customer database of a New Zealand-headquartered pizza store chain has been compromised. Risky.Biz understands multiple intruders have compromised Hell Pizza’s 400mb database. While it does not contain any credit card information, it does contain in excess of 230,000 rows of customer entries. The company operates 64 stores in New Zealand,…
Turks hack Israeli account details
Nitzan Sadan reports: Turkish hackers have obtained the passwords and credit card details of 32,561 Israeli users, the Israeli We-CMS blog says. According to the blog, a Turkish message board has uploaded a list containing credit card details, PayPal and bank usernames and passwords. The list is also said to contain more than 140 passwords…
(update) Aldaco’s credit card hacking period shrinks
Guillermo Contreras reports: Patrons of a popular North Side restaurant whose credit and debit card processing system was hacked earlier this year might be able to breathe a little easier. Aldaco’s in Stone Oak has narrowed down the dates when customers’ card numbers may have been compromised to a period between March 21 and May…
(follow-up) CT: Two students arrested for hacking into school computer system to change grades
Macklin Reid reports: Police have arrested two students for breaching the security of Ridgefield High School’s computer system in June, with a goal of altering grades. The students were charged with theft of computer services in the third degree and first degree criminal mischief. Police described the students as 16-year-old males, but did not release…