Heartland Payment Systems may be back in VISA’s good graces as PCI-Compliant, but the impact of the breach continues to emerge. Leonard Hayhurst of Coshocton Tribune reports that Ohio Heritage Bank was alerted over the weekend that 800 debit cards were compromised due to the breach. Of the 800 cards, 15 showed fraudulent charges….
Category: Malware
Hack Against ISP Hijacks Bank, Google Adsense
Brian Krebs reports that hackers hijacked the domain name system records for NET Virtua, a major Brazilian ISP, on April 11. “Customers who visited any site that ran Google Adsense content were redirected to a site that tried to install and run a Java applet that in turn installed a Trojan horse program.” The attack…
FL: SunTrust Banks first replacing cards due to Heartland breach
WESH reports that SunTrust Banks sent out letters this week to customers informing them that their cards were being replaced due to the Heartland breach. WESH’s reporter asked what I would have asked: why are notifications first being sent now? The news station reports, “When asked why it took SunTrust so long to find out…
Five Romanians arrested for hacking into U.S. pharmaceutical companies
Dan Kaplan of SC Magazine reports that five people have been arrested for illegally accessing computer systems belonging to unnamed U.S. pharmaceutical companies. The hackers allegedly installed keylogger software to steal card data on point-of-sales systems. Lucian Constantin reports that according to a DIICOT press release (in Romanian), the remote administration system used by the…
New fraud reports attributed to Heartland Payment Systems breach
A few weeks ago, Clearstar Financial Credit Union reported that a few dozen of their members had detected fraudulent charges on their cards that began on March 25. Given that lists of possibly compromised card numbers from the Heartland Payment Systems breach had been sent out in January and thereafter, some of us wondered whether…
Penn State reports second breach in 2009
Penn State does not seem to be having a great year in terms of data security and malware. Indeed, when I saw the newest incident in my newsreader, I skipped it at first, thinking it was a previously reported breach, but it’s not. On March 23, the University confirmed that 10,868 Social Security numbers in…