Colin Stutz reports: Leading independent record label conglomerate Beggars Group had its online stores hacked in May, with costumers’ confidential information potentially compromised. Matador Direct — which distributes for 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, Young Turks, True Panther, XL Recordings and Beggars Arkive in the United States — sent a letter last week explaining that customers who ordered…
Category: Business Sector
Cici’s Pizza: Card Breach at 130+ Locations
Brian Krebs reports: Cici’s Pizza, a Coppell, Texas-based fast-casual restaurant chain, today acknowledged a credit card breach at more than 135 locations. The disclosure comes more than a month after KrebsOnSecurity first broke the news of the intrusion, offering readers a sneak peak inside the sprawling cybercrime machine that thieves used to siphon card data from Cici’s customers…
Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
Tim Johnson reports: The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an Illinois internet retailer: Pay two Bitcoins, or about $500 at the time, and the intruder would “remove all bugs on your shop!” Such demands are…
Saint John Development Corporation finds cyber attack damage
Rachel Cave reports: The Saint John Development Corporation says it’s working to restore an annual report that it lost to a cyber attack in early 2015. “We lost a lot of our data,” said General Manager Kent MacIntyre. “We had some [Saint John] city IT people working with us to try to recover that but…
Baseball Hacking Case Ends with Prison
Jeremy Kirk reports: A former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for illegally peeking at a player-drafting database for the Houston Astros – a hefty term for a distinctly unique hacking case. Christopher Correa, 36, was accused of illegally accessing Ground Control, a cloud-based database that held…
Asiana Airlines Website Has Customers’ Personal Data Leak
Huh Sung-soo reports: A lack of security on Asiana Airlines’ website exposed the sensitive information of its passengers. […] Asiana Airlines released a statement that there was an exposure of the universal resource locator (URL) for those attached files within contents they uploaded on the frequently asked questions (FAQ) of its Internet bulletin board by some…