Kevin McCallum reports: Shoppers who used the self-checkout lines at 21 Lucky supermarkets in the Bay Area should cancel their accounts to protect their money, the company that owns the grocery chain announced Monday. The warning does not yet include Lucky’s Supermarkets in the North Bay, but a store in Petaluma was under investigation as…
Category: Business Sector
Members of Congress want answers fromTRICARE Management on SAIC breach
Five members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to TRICARE Management Authority concerning the recent SAIC breach that affected over 4.9 million members of the military and their dependents. In a series of questions, the legislators ask for details as to TRICARE’s policies and, in particular, any policies or contracts it had…
Extreme Pizza hacked again
Back in July, I blogged about pizza store chains being hacked. One of them was Extreme Pizza, who had received reports of card fraud from 16 of their west coast franchises after a POS hack in August 2010. Now they’re back in the news with reports of a more recent compromise affecting customers in…
Songs Fever gets dump instead of downloads
The message at the top of the data dump from “LOLIH4X0RDU” was to the point: Songs Fever dump. Dumbasses CHECK FOR SECURITY! (DB also had CC information, but ill leave it out of here.) The data from Pakistani-based Songs Fever, which were also posted on http://hack4cash.net/songsfever.html, contained 1,344 usernames, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords and…
250k users exposed in Naijaloaded hack
Missed this one while getting ready for Thanksgiving! Darren Pauli reports: Almost 250,000 user details of popular Nigerian youth forum Naijaloaded have been exposed after the site was hacked. A hacker by the name of TheMrX uploaded a shell on the website and accessed its 42mb user database. The database contained names, usenames, passwords and…
Nelnet employee accused of misusing customer info
Federal prosecutors have charged a Nelnet [National Education Loan Network] employee with fraud after she allegedly used customers’ information to apply for personal loans. Jovita D. Benford, 23, of Lincoln was charged with unauthorized computer access Monday in U.S. District Court. A screen recording of her computer by Nelnet found she completed pre-paid credit card applications…