Sam Varghese reports: A public server belonging to Linux Australia, the umbrella group for Linux user groups in the country, were breached on March 22, and the personal information of members may have been stolen. Detailing the breach in a post to the main mailing list, the organisation’s president, Joshua Hesketh, wrote yesterday that the breach had…
Category: Business Sector
FL: Broward Resident Pleads Guilty to Stealing Personally Identifiable Information of Magazine Subscription Customers
Eartha Ann Worthy, 29, of Broward County, Florida pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for her participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving the personally identifiable information of magazine subscription customers. According to court documents, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant…
Biggby Coffee warns of data security breach impacting customers and job applicants
Lindsay VanHulle reports: Biggby Coffee today said it was the target of a security breach that potentially exposed customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and employment histories. The East Lansing coffee chain did not say how many customers were affected. But Biggby said their data might have been compromised when they registered a frequent…
Miami-Dade Police Department Officer Indicted On Fraud Charges
We’ve seen this exact same scheme before, but this case is in Florida. I wonder how many other cases there are like this out there that we haven’t found out about yet: A Miami-Dade Police Department Officer, Rafael Duran, 43, of Miami, has been arrested for participating in a fraud scheme. His arraignment is scheduled for April 16, 2015….
In: Chennai engineer gets 2-yrs jail for hacking, data theft
A court here has sentenced a Chennai-based software professional to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for hacking servers of a local firm and stealing confidential data. The court had on March 31 found Prabhakar Sampath guilty under Section 66 of Information Technology Act. Apart from the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs…
Aussie teen hacker Abdilo’s home raided, and he’s ordered to turn over his passwords and decryption keys
Will Ockenden and Benjamin Sveen report that the teenage hacker known as “Abdilo” had his home raided by Australian law enforcement in a pre-dawn raid. DataBreaches.net has reported on a number of Abdilo’s claimed hacks, which included an Australian travel insurance company, the University of Sydney, and numerous educational institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere. Most of his…