Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…
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Orange County Employees Association victim of hack
The Orange County Employees Association in Santa Ana, California is notifying an undisclosed number of people that their personal information, and that of their dependents, may have been accessed by hackers. In a notification to the state, OCEA writes that the attack, which appears to have occurred as early as June 5, was detected on July…
NJ: Two People Charged In Scheme To Steal 94,000 Debit And Credit Cards From Michaels’ Stores In 19 States
Two people were charged Thursday for allegedly participating in a large-scale conspiracy to steal 94,000 credit and debit cards from customers at approximately 80 Michaels’ Stores in 19 states and then use that information to make fraudulent withdrawals from the customers’ bank accounts. Angel Angulo, 25, of Riverside, California, and Crystal Banuelos, 28, of Bloomington, California,…
NY: Restaurant server accused of stealing customers’ credit card info
WNYT reports: A restaurant server is accused of stealing the credit card numbers of customers, then using it to buy things for herself. Molly Dutrow, 20, now faces forgery and identity theft charges. All of the alleged thefts happened during the first two weeks of July. Police say Dutrow was working at Lillian’s Restaurant in…
Hacker steals Bitdefender customer log-in credentials, attempts blackmail
Lucian Constantin reports: A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus company confirmed the security breach but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, whose passwords…
PagerDuty hacked … and finally comes clean 21 days later. Cheers
Alexander J. Martin reports: Why not celebrate SysAdmin Day by worrying about a data breach at incident management peddler PagerDuty? An attacker managed to get into the company’s systems on 9 July, and a belated 21 days later the company did the decent thing and informed its customers about the incident. ‘Fessing up to the…