Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 26-year-old Texas man was sentenced for hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA. U.S. District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas, to 24 months in prison on one count of wire fraud. He was indicted in the…
Category: Business Sector
Email error results in some Jackson National Life Insurance members being notified
Jackson National Life Insurance recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on April 12, 2011, an email error resulted in a file being mailed to the wrong broker-deal. The file contained March 2011 data, including names, policy numbers, policy values, transaction dates, and amounts. The file did not include any Social Security numbers…
Bethesda Softworks hacked, personal data ‘stolen’
Bethesda has revealed that its website was hacked over the weekend. Personal data, such as user names, email addresses and passwords, may have been taken in the attack. Credit card and personal financial information was stressed to have not been compromised. “Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites…
UK: Computer expert at centre of credit card scam is jailed
Chris Osuh reports: A crooked IT expert at the centre of a major credit card scam kitted out a shop with his ill-gotten gains. Fraudster Syed Tirmizi traded the personal banking details of unsuspecting customers with online criminals, hoarded equipment for making bogus credit cards, and made a string of purchases using other people’s money….
(follow-up) Ireland to extradite “Boards.ie hacker”?
Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked. Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month, The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…
Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants reveals that 300,000 workers’ compensation applicants’ names and Social Security Numbers were exposed on internet
Remember how Heartland Payment Systems took a lot of heat for announcing their breach at a time that coincided with President Obama’s inauguration? Since then, a lot of entities have been bashed a bit over the timing of their breach disclosures. As someone who tracks breaches, it became almost a given that I would find…