Amy Pavuk reports: Secret Service agents say seven members of a Central Florida crime ring spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers, which were purchased over the Internet from people who hacked into business computers and obtained the data. […] The local Secret Service investigation began in September, when an agent…
Category: Malware
Hacking creates chaos for Snow Creek and its customers
Scott Canon reports: Snow Creek ski resort in Weston and many of its credit card customers appear to be victims of an attack by Internet hackers that first came to light Friday morning. By midday Friday the Platte County outfit had cut its on-site credit card processing system from the Internet and was warning customers…
New Hampshire man to be sentenced in international scheme using malware to generate calls to premium phone numbers
On February 28, 2011, Asu Pala, a 37 year-old New Hampshire man will be sentenced for his role in an international computer hacking conspiracy that earned him nearly $8 million. On April 21, 2010, Pala of Hudson, NH, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and five counts of failure to…
More affected by Pentagon Federal CU breach than originally thought
The Pentagon Federal Credit Union malware-related breach, first reported on this blog on Jan. 6, has an update. According to a supplementary letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office filed by their lawyers on January 11, the breach affected 674 residents of New Hampshire, not 514. Does anyone know the total for this breach?…
5,600 South Carolina state employees notified of security breach
Associated Press reports that some of the people people who have or had insurance coverage from South Carolina’s State Employee Insurance Program have been sent letters notifying them of a breach. According to AP: State Employee Insurance Program director Stephen Van Camp said a computer virus attack on a single computer could have allowed the…
Malware snags Pentagon Federal CU member’s SSN and data
Through its lawyers, Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. According to a letter sent to the state on December 30, on December 12, PenFed discovered that a laptop had been infected with malware. The compromise allowed access to a database containing names, addresses, Social…