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…
Category: Business Sector
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…
US judge refuses to delay code theft trial for ex-Goldman programmer
Brendan Pierson reports: A New York judge on Wednesday rejected a request from prosecutors to delay the scheduled trial of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov, who is charged with stealing code from the investment bank. Read more on Reuters.
Officials say advanced hack was hoax in charging twin brothers
Justin Jouvenal reports: The cybersecurity expert and hacker claimed he created a sophisticated attack that allowed him to add unlimited funds to gift cards from major retailers — a security hole that could have resulted in huge losses for Starbucks, Kmart and Whole Foods Market. But the story the Springfield man told federal agents and The Washington…