Melissa Stephenson reports: Chipotle Mexican Grill announced Tuesday that they have detected a data security breach. The company believes the breach may have affected transactions from March 24 through April 18. Read more on WTKR.
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A Week Later, Hacked Spyware Vendors Haven’t Warned Their 130,000 Customers
Joseph Cox reports: An alleged email apparently shows one employee explicitly telling staff not to warn customers the company was hacked. Tens of thousands of people are in the dark. Motherboard recently reported hackers had targeted two companies that sell spyware to the everyday consumer—Retina-X and FlexiSpy. Hackers made off with a mix of over…
Ashley Madison blackmailers threaten to create Cheater’s Gallery exposing members who don’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: Blackmailers are once again trying to make money out of the notorious Ashley Madison hack, which exposed the details of registered members of the cheating website in 2015. Robin Harris writes on ZDNet that he has received a blackmail threat, alerting him that unless he pays up $500 worth of Bitcoin his…
Blowout Cards Notifies Customers After Card Fraud Reports Roll In
On April 19, a user calling themself “ForceChange77” posted an inquiry on a Blowout Cards forum: Not sure where to put this, but I ordered something from Blowout in January. Used a credit card that I rarely use – only other place I use is NYTimes subscription. Somebody got the card number and started charging…
Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer to See If He Will Be Let Go
Catalin Cimpanu reports: On Friday, April 7, the FBI arrested Zhengquan Zhang, a 31-year-old IT engineer, who now stands accused of installing malware on his employer’s servers to steal proprietary source. Zhang started working for his former employer, KCG Holdings, Inc., in March 2010, first in its New York branch, and then its San Francisco…
Longest sentence ever handed out for hacking: Roman Seleznev Sentenced to 27 Years
There was big news in the world of hacking prosecutions yesterday. The DOJ announced that Roman Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years in prison for computer hacking crimes that reportedly caused more than $169 million in damage to small businesses and financial institutions. Prosecutors had sought a 30-year sentence to send a strong message, and the sentence appears…