Andrew Seymour reports: When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. The bureau had spent more than a year keeping tabs on the 15-year-old Canadian teenager,…
Category: Business Sector
7.85 million IDs, passwords found on seized proxy servers in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting a significant data theft case affecting as many as 5.06 million people who used online shopping and other web sites in Japan. The Metropolitan Police Department said that the IDs and passwords were found on computer servers it seized in relation to alleged unauthorized access via proxy servers by a Chinese…
Hackers break into Lufthansa customer database
Looks like I prepared this but forgot to post it last week. Let’s get caught up: DW reports that Lufthansa airline has experienced a hack involving its frequent flyer or rewards program. But unlike other airlines that reported similar breaches, in this case, other databases were also seemingly involved and the hackers were able to obtain…
Former member of SwaggSec sentenced to 3 years in prison for attacks on DirecTV, Farmers Insurance, and L.A. Dept. of Public Works
Nancy Dillon reports that a 32-year old hacker who used the online names of “fame” and “infam0us” and was part of SwaggSec has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in attacking DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works: Mario Patrick Chuisano was sentenced in U.S. District Court in…
Sony Pictures condemns Wikileaks’ release of hacked material
From the is-anyone-really-surprised dept.: Saba Hamedy reports: Months after Sony Pictures Entertainment suffered from a crippling cyberattack, troves of the studio’s leaked information has resurfaced on WikiLeaks. The Julian Assange-run website, known for its massive release of classified U.S. military documents and diplomatic records, on Thursday published a searchable database called “The Sony Archives.” It contains 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures and…
Target Settles Data Breach Lawsuit With MasterCard for $19M
Anne D’innocenzio and Marley Jay of AP report: Target and MasterCard say they’ve agreed to settle lawsuits over the discounter’s pre-Christmas 2013 massive data breach. Target said late Wednesday it has set aside up to $19 million for banks and credit unions issuing MasterCards that were caught in the data breach that compromised 40 million credit…