From the MacKeeper Security Research Center, another misconfigured database leaking data. This time, it’s the Silverland Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam with thousands of unencrypted credit cards. According to their report, the total number of entries reached 6377 items (credit cards details in plain text). And this should not inspire confidence in potential hotel…
Category: Business Sector
AZ Computer Expert Sentenced to Prison After $571,000 Theft
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a judge sentenced Steve Nolte to 9 years in prison for stealing more than $571,000 from his former employer. The sentence imposed by the Court was ordered to run consecutive to Nolte’s three-year federal prison sentence for passport fraud, aggravated identity theft, and use of a falsely-obtained Social Security Number. On…
Former Car Dealership Employee Sentenced for her Participation in a Stolen Identity Tax Fraud Scheme
A Jensen Beach resident was sentenced to 30 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for her participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme. Micheline Eppolito, 29, of Jensen Beach, was previously convicted at trial of one count of possessing fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, affecting interstate commerce, in violation…
ID: Accounting firm Presnell Gage reports data security breach
The Lewiston Tribune reports: The personal information of Presnell Gage Accounting and Consulting clients may have been accessed without authorization during a recent data security breach, according to a company news release. A small percentage of clients had fraudulent tax returns filed without their authorization, according to a news release from the Lewiston-based company. Presnell…
An unprotected database containing personal customer data of thousands of off-grid electricity customers was accessible for months.
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of remote villagers in Guatemala and South Africa are living off the grid, but their personal information isn’t. Chris Vickery, lead security researcher of the MacKeeper security research team, discovered an unprotected database with no password over two months ago. Anyone who knew the database was there could access more than…
Class Claims St. Jude Pacemakers Can Be Hacked
From the you’re-not-really-surprised-by-this-are-you? dept., Don DeBenedictis reports: In a class action that sounds like a Tom Clancy novel, a patient claims that pacemakers and other implanted heart devices sold by St. Jude Medical can be attacked by hackers to steal personal information and even harm patients. Clinton W. Ross Jr. claims that several lines of…