A computer hacker from Georgia pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and identity theft after authorities found more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his home computers. Credit card companies have traced more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions to the accounts that were breached by Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, of Lithonia, Ga. Read more…
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Epsilon pledges to build ‘Fort Knox’ around breached system
Grant Gross reports: E-mail marketing giant Epsilon will build an industry-leading security system in response to a March 30 breach in which thieves gained access to the e-mail addresses and names of partner’s customers, the CEO of Epsilon’s parent company said Thursday. Epsilon had “very strong” security measures in place before the breach, but additional…
Software manufacturer Ashampoo hacked
Dear Ashampoo customer, We in the Ashampoo group take data privacy protection very seriously. Therefore we constantly strive to guarantee the maximum possible safety for our technical systems. Like many other companies we are targeted by organizations of hackers that try to break into IT systems in order to steal data. Unfortunately, one of our…
Loss of Personal Information in Security Breach Results in Loss of Some “Unidentified Value”
Craig Hoffman discusses a ruling in a lawsuit against RockYou over a security breach that is noteworthy for the plaintiff’s somewhat novel approach to demonstrating injury due to the breach: A December 2009 SQL injection attack against social network application maker RockYou.com’s database resulted in the breach of 32 million log-in credentials ( e-mail address…
Hackers may have accessed more than 25,000 South Carolina students’ personal info
The identity of thousands of students and teachers has potentially been compromised after officials with the Lancaster County School District say a hacker was able to access their system. According to school officials, the hackers were able to hack into the district’s system by monitoring district computers and capturing keystrokes to get passwords. Those passwords…
ESA hack did not breach internal network
Jack Clark reports: The European Space Agency has confirmed that a hacker entered its FTP servers and took sensitive data, including hundreds of passwords. The data breach exposed more than 200 usernames, passwords and email addresses, as well as server logs, the agency said on Tuesday. A Romanian hacker named ‘TinKode’ has claimed responsibility for…