An administrator ATBHost.net has posted an alert in their forum: On September 28, 2010 at around 3:30 pm US Central Standard Time, there was a flood attack against ATBHost.net MySQL Server. The Attack was from inside the server, before we acquire the company a couple of hackers/crackers with bad intentions were allowed to have a…
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(follow-up) Three black market travel agents plead guilty
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy among black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to purchase airline tickets for their customers. Some…
Will ACS:Law become the first to feel the hammer of the ICO?
Peter Griffiths of Reuters reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday it will investigate reports that hackers broke into a law firm’s computers and leaked the details of thousands of Sky broadband customers alleged to have shared pornographic films. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it would check whether London-based ACS:Law breached the Data Protection…
UK: Thousands more exposed on ACS:Law file-sharing lists
Daniel Emery reports that the number of people affected by the ACS:Law breach is rising: The personal details of a further 8,000 people alleged to have shared music or films illegally have appeared online. A list of more than 8,000 Sky broadband subscribers and a second of 400 PlusNet users surfaced following a security breach…
French police bust network of mobile phone hackers
A report by AFP provides another reminder of how costly insider breaches can be: French police have busted a network of mobile phone hackers, a fraud worth millions of euros, and arrested nine people, including employees of cellular phone companies, investigators said Sunday. Three people were still in custody Sunday following the arrests across the…
“Human error” exposed sellers’ names on Etsy.com
Due to an “internal human coding error,” online marketplace Etsy.com exposed over 1,900 sellers’ real names on their website on September 20 instead of their shops’ names. In a post on its website, Chad Dickerson explained: We had an issue in Treasury earlier today where the “full name” field that we gather at seller registration…