There’s a follow-up to an arrest reported in 2014. Melanie Petrinec reports: Hacker Shane Duffy has been sentenced to 2.5 years in jail but will be released on parole today. The 23-year-old’s family sobbed in the public gallery as the sentence was handed down by Judge Tony Moynihan. Shane Stephen Duffy, 23, pleaded guilty to nine…
Category: Business Sector
CA: cost-u-less cost some customers more after insider credit card theft
Several customers of an Oroville auto insurance company are out hundreds, even thousands of dollars and now police are looking for a woman who used to work there… Oroville police are investigating this case, they say a woman who was fired from cost-u-less on Oro Dam Boulevard stole credit card information from at least 10…
Ex-PwC Duo Get Suspended Jail Terms for LuxLeaks Data Theft
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Two ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers staffers were found guilty in Luxembourg of stealing confidential tax files that helped unleash a global scandal over generous fiscal deals for hundreds of international companies. Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet face suspended sentences of 12 months and 9 months and were ordered to pay fines of 1,500 euros ($1,670) and…
Private Messages From Dating Site ‘Muslim Match’ Hacked and Dumped
Joseph Cox reports: Specialty dating site “Muslim Match” has been hacked. Nearly 150,000 user credentials and profiles have been posted online, as well as over half a million private messages between users. Security researcher Troy Hunt has added the data to his breach notification site “Have I Been Pwned?” for the site’s users to check…
CUNA Joins Wendy’s Breach Suit
Roy Urrico reports: The Michigan Credit Union League, its members and CUNA are advocating for stronger merchants and card network accountability after a Wendy’s restaurants breach forced several credit unions to cover associated costs. According to CUNA, industry sources estimated the fraudulent charges have been even larger than in other recent data breaches such as…
Noodles and Company confirms payment card breach
Brian Krebs first broke the story in May that casual food chain Noodles and Company had likely had a payment card breach. Now the company has confirmed it: Press Release Noodles & Company Provides Notice of Data Security Incident Broomfield, Colorado, June 28, 2016 – Noodles & Company (NASDAQ: NDLS) today announced that a recent data security…