Michael Hinkelman reports: Two Philadelphia men, including an employee of a health insurance company, were charged today with stealing the identities of 86 people in a scheme that netted them nearly $290,000, federal authorities said. An indictment alleges that Kenneth C. Osbourne, Jr., 35, used his position as a customer service representative at AmeriHealth Administrators,…
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23,000 passwords stolen in Star Wars Galaxies fan site hack
Jay writes: A small force has managed to infiltrate a Star War Galaxies fan site – smuggling and publishing 21,000 email addresses and 23,000 gamer passwords. Rebellious hacking group ObSec claim the attack on the fan-run website, which is unofficially linked to LucasArts and Sony’s popular Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, which ends its Saga…
Nokia Hacked; Significant Number of Records Stolen
Nokia’s developer forum has been taken offline after a breach from hacker who obtained database tables with user account information, Nokia said in a statement. During the investigation, Nokia discovered that a database table containing developer forum members’ e-mail addresses has been accessed, by exploiting vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL…
Ca: Dozens of personal files discovered in west-end dumpster
Dozens of personal files have been discovered in a dumpster outside a west-end restaurant. The files included the personal information of past employees. The dumpster outside the Twisted Kilt has now been emptied out, but Thursday morning it was full of several boxes of documents that included the personal information of former staff members, not…
Huntsville restaurant at center of credit card scam investigation
Note that this story is about a restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama and is not about Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant in Huntsville, Texas. Margo Gray reports: Several people have had their credit card information stolen, and it may be connected to an investigation into a Huntsville restaurant. At least three more cases have been filed with Huntsville…
Hacker exposes 20,000 usernames, passwords, and email addresses from Allianceforbiz.com (updated)
Fahmida Y. Rashid reports: A solo attacker has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. The cyber-attacker posted an Excel spreadsheet containing log-in credentials and personal information for 20,000 people obtained from allianceforbiz.com, according to a blog post…