Levi Pullkinen reports: A Seattle grand jury has indicted a Maryland man accused of hacking into the credit card systems of several Seattle businesses and using stolen funds to fuel his heroin addiction. Currently in inpatient treatment for drug addition, 20-year-old Christopher A. Schroebel is facing federal hacking charges related to a string of high-tech…
Category: Malware
Update to Restaurant Depot/Jetro breach
The recent Restaurant Depot/Jetro breach that I reported on Dec. 7 provides a timely example of the issue of unreimbursed harm that consumers grapple with on a daily basis. As I continue to follow media coverage on that breach, it is clear that not only is there financial impact of this breach (the hacked card numbers…
IA: Atlantic YMCA loses $50,000 in cyber attack
The executive director of the Nishna Valley Family Y.M.C.A. in Atlantic says the organization has lost nearly $50,000 in a cyber attack. Y.M.C.A. executive director, Dan Haynes, told reporters this morning during a news conference, that their computer systems were recently infected by a virus that targeted what are called ACH or Automated Clearing…
Restaurant Depot/Jetro Cash & Carry Customers’ Credit Cards Hacked (update2)
Gawker.com is not one of my usual sources for news on data breaches, but they managed to uncover a breach that we would not have known about had it not appeared on a firearms discussion forum (yes, really): If you used a credit card between the dates of Sept. 21 and Nov. 18th at national…
101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach
Michael H. Berkens reports: 101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.” According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has around 10,000 domain names under management. Read more on TheDomains.com. From the notification letter: We are writing to you as a primary contact on your account with…
Cycling star Floyd Landis prosecuted in absentia for alleged role in hacking anti-doping lab via malware
John E. Dunn reports: Disgraced former Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis should be given an 18-month suspended prison sentence for his part in an alleged plot to hack the French national anti-doping laboratory (LNDD) using Trojans, a prosecutor has said. The planting of computer Trojans for the purposes of data theft is usually seen…