In the justice system: A string of identity thefts spanning seven states has resulted in the arrest of two suspects in Wisconsin. More. As a follow-up to a story reported previously, Scottsdale police arrested nine people who allegedly ran an ID theft ring that involved stealing customer data from local businesses including the Henry Brown…
Category: Business Sector
Sprint: Employee Stole Customer Data (updated)
Brian Krebs of Security Fix reports that Sprint sent letters to several thousand customers to inform them that a former employee sold or otherwise provided their account data without permission between December 2008 and January 2009. Updated Apr. 1: Sprint’s notification (pdf) to the NH Attorney General is now available online.
BT rebuts vulnerability claims
(This is a follow-up to a story reported here). Today, John Leyden of The Register reports that BT.com claims that the flaws HackersBlog reported only involved test systems and that no customer data were at risk. Whether BT’s statement was issued before or after HackersBlog published more about the alleged vulnerability and databases they were…
Pentel online store hacked; customer credit card data accessed
Pentel customers who ordered online at www.pentelstore.com were recently notified that hackers accessed their personal information and credit card information. By letter dated March 3 to the New Hampshire Attorney General, the pen manufacturer reported (pdf) that on January 20, its web maintainer and server host notified them that between December 11, 2008, and January…
UAE: Newspaper staff salaries leaked on internet
Salaries of Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National’s entire editorial staff have been posted on Wikileaks. Makt006 Business has more on the impact.
HackersBlog exposes BT.com vulnerability (updated)
“Unu” of HackersBlog reports that they have been able to access at least one of UK telecom BT’s databases through SQL injection: A faulty parameter, improperly sanitized opens the vault to the pretious databases. One can gain access to such ordinary things as personal data, login data, and the like. In the first syntax I…