Stephanie Gailhard reports that Hard Times Café in Rockville, Maryland and 8 other businesses got hit with ransomware on Sunday. The ransom demand for the restaurant? $10,000 according to owner Bob Howard. But he says he’s not paying.
Category: Business Sector
18 million stolen IDs discovered on server / Criminals in China got illegal access
Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The IDs and passwords of about 18 million Internet users have been found on a computer server set up by a Tokyo company, which was found in November to have allegedly provided its relay server to parties in China for illegal access, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday. […] The company in…
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement After Social Security Numbers Of Over 500 Job Applicants Posted Online
The NYS Attorney General’s has announced a settlement following a data breach I never heard about. And I’m guessing that some people will grumble that the monetary penalty is too light. NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Doritex Corp. and its website developer Kallus Opraments, involving the disclosure…
Crooks Steal, Sell Verizon Enterprise Customer Data
Brian Krebs reports: Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a B2B unit of the telecommunications giant that gets called in to help Fortune 500’s respond to some of the world’s largest data breaches, is reeling from its own data breach involving the theft and resale of customer data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Earlier this week, a prominent member of a…
Not our hack, not our data breach: Greenshades
Although media reports this month have been talking about a hack of payroll services provider Greenshades that has resulted in clients’ employees discovering that their identity info has been used for fraudulent returns, Greenshades want you to know that they haven’t had a breach of their system. Earlier this week, Karen Berkowitz reported that District…
How Pirates And Hackers Worked Together To Steal Millions Of Dollars In Diamonds
Joseph Bernstein reports: Late on a Friday afternoon in early 2015, Chris Novak got a strange call. As the director of Verizon’s investigative response team, he was accustomed to desperate corporations dialing into the group’s 24-7 hotline to stanch the bleeding caused by cybersecurity crises — credit card fraud, financial fraud, intellectual property theft. “We…