Joey Gill reports: A Dickson attorney is facing federal charges after a Department of Justice investigation uncovered $1.3 million stolen from clients and false tax returns filed. Jackie Lynn Garton, 54, was charged Thursday with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and tax fraud related to a years-long scheme during which money was stolen from clients…
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U.S. Readies Charges Against Chinese Hackers
Dustin Volz reports: Federal prosecutors are expected to unseal criminal charges as soon as next week against hackers linked to the Chinese government who have allegedly engaged in a sophisticated multiyear scheme to break into U.S. technology service providers in order to compromise the networks of their clients, according to people familiar with the matter….
Bethesda’s support site leaked people’s real names and addresses
Matt Cox reports: In a security breach last night (now resolved), Bethesda’s support site revealed the personal information of customers who’d submitted support tickets. The details – which included people’s names, addresses and phone numbers – mostly belonged to Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition buyers, who were after a replacement canvas bag for the nylon…
Location, location, location — Thursday edition
So here’s a comforting headline (NOT!) that popped up in my news reading this morning: About 69% of Indian Android apps have access to your exact location: Study. And if you read the article, you learn that not only have Indian firms reportedly made no progress since last year, but About 99 per cent Android…
BeatStars discloses security breach in Twitter live stream
Catalin Cimpanu reports: BeatStars, a marketplace for selling music production beats, has disclosed a security breach today. In a Periscope live stream shared on Twitter, Abe Batshon, BeatStars CEO revealed that the mysterious cause of the site’s downtime on Monday was an unauthorized access of its servers. “Last night we’ve seen very unusual behavior with…
Clothing company OppoSuits hit by Magecart attack
Sam Varghese reports: Customers of Dutch clothing company OppoSuits have been warned to monitor their credit card accounts after the firm reported that malware planted on its website could have stolen the details of customers who made purchases from its Australian, Canadian, EU and UK websites. In a statement on Monday (Tuesday Australian time), the…