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Update AK: Source of stolen credit information was a restaurant

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dissent

James Halpin reports: The source of the debit and credit card data stolen from hundreds of Anchorage residents in a sophisticated hacking attack was Little Italy, a family-owned restaurant in South Anchorage, its owner said Tuesday. Police say anywhere from 150 to 1,000 card numbers were stolen and used in the attack, which started generating…

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Target Co was victim of hacker Albert Gonzalez

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dissent

Target Co said it was among the victims of computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, mastermind of the biggest identity theft in U.S. history. […] Target spokeswoman Amy Reilly said her company was among the victims, having had an “extremely limited” number of payment card numbers stolen by Gonzalez about two years ago. She declined to say…

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Major International Hacker Pleads Guilty For Massive Attack On U.s. Retail And Banking Networks

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dissent

Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and to steal data relating to tens of millions of credit and debit cards, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey…

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RockYou Sued for Failing to Protect the Personal Data of its 32 Million Customers

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Dissent

From the press release: An Indiana man filed a class action lawsuit Monday against RockYou, the developer of popular online applications and services for use with social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, after RockYou failed to safeguard the highly sensitive personal information of him and 32 million others. The lawsuit alleges that RockYou…

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La. restaurants suffering credit card ‘nightmare’

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Dissent

Jason Brown of The Advocate has a story today about restauranteurs’ lawsuits against Radiant Systems and Computer World, a lawsuit covered previously on the blog. Of note, Brown cites a Secret Service agent involved in the case: Luiz Velez, resident agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Baton Rouge office, said each hack involved restaurants…

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Jp: Ex-exec of matchmaking firm ‘stole personal data’

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Dissent

Here’s an insider breach from Japan reported by The Yomiuri Shimbun: A former executive of matchmaking service firm Web in Chiba Prefecture allegedly stole personal data of about 16,000 people who registered with the firm and tried to sell it to other matchmaking firms, it has been learned. Web said it plans to lodge a…

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