Kim Tae-jong reports the latest in a breach involving Hyundai Capital reported previously on this blog: Police arrested two suspects Monday on charges of hacking Hyundai Capital’s database and blackmailing the company by threatening to release confidential customer financial information. A 40-year-old man, surnamed Huh, is thought to be the key figure who facilitated the…
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Pryor Urges FTC to Investigate Data Breach that Exposes Millions of Consumers
U.S. Senator Mark Pryor has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the Chairman to investigate the recent data breach of Epsilon, an online marketing firm that handles email lists for companies such as Target, Best Buy, Walgreens, and Citi Group. Pryor said the information that was stolen is likely limited to e-mail…
WordPress Hack Puts Government and Commercial Clients at Risk
Jessica Herrera-Flanigan reports: Continuing the trend in recent weeks of high-profile sites being attacked, the open source blog program WordPress announced that it was hacked on Wednesday and the hackers potentially made off with “anything.” In a note posted on the WordPress webblog, founder Matt Mullenweg stated “Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a…
Malaysian National Admits to Hacking into the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, FedComp, and Others
Lin Mun Poo, 32, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Brooklyn to possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers. Poo also admitted that he compromised a computer server belonging to the Federal Reserve Bank, and that he installed a malicious code onto that server. According to the…
FR: Hacker arrested after TV brag
From the unchecked-ego dept. Hundreds of bank card details have been found at the home of a computer hacker who boasted on TV of how he could break into the systems of the army and aerospace group Thalès. Thalès pressed charges after the program Complément d’enquête on France 2 showed the man breaking into their…
Hacker breaks into Barracuda Networks database
Robert McMillan reports: A hacker has broken into a Barracuda Networks database and obtained names and e-mail addresses of some of the security company’s employees, channel partners and sales leads. The hacker, who called himself Fdf, posted proof of his attack to the Web on Monday, showing e-mail addresses of company employees and names, e-mail addresses,…