A Romanian citizen made his initial court appearance today following his extradition to face charges that he orchestrated an international hacking scheme targeting retailers, security companies, medical offices and individuals in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Mircea-Ilie Ispasoiu, 29, of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, is charged by federal indictment with two counts…
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Twitch Security Breach Reported, Password Change Required
From Twitch From Twitch’s blog today: Important Notice About Your Twitch Account We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information. For your protection, we have expired passwords and stream keys and have disconnected accounts from Twitter and YouTube. As a result, you will…
Hilton Honors Flaw Exposed All Accounts
Brian Krebs reports: Hospitality giant Hilton Hotels & Resorts recently started offering Hilton HHonors Awards members 1,000 free awards points to those who agreed to change their passwords for the online service prior to April 1, 2015, when the company said the change would become mandatory. Ironically, that same campaign led to the discovery of a simple yet powerful flaw…
Accused Russian hacker should pay defense cost, prosecutors say
Mike Carter reports: Federal prosecutors have taken the rare step of challenging the appointment of publicly funded lawyers to represent accused Russian hacker Roman Seleznev and have asked a judge to order Seleznev to reimburse the government for his defense. […] As proof, the government provided the court with photographs of stacks of cash and…
FBI looking into Chinese military involvement in cyber hack of U.S. company
Elizabeth Shim reports: The FBI is probing into possible Chinese military involvement in a data breach of Register.com, a network that manages more than 1.4 million website addresses. The Financial Times reported the cyber attack on the U.S. company included theft of employee passwords and unauthorized access to Register’s network during a yearlong breach that did not…
WNY credit unions join together in Home Depot security suit
Allissa Kline reports: Four separate lawsuits filed by four local credit unions in the wake of Home Depot’s massive security breach are now being consolidated along with other cases into one overall complaint. According to James Pizzirusso, the Washington, D.C.-based attorney at Hausfeld LLP who filed the initial lawsuits, various allegations in those complaints and any new information…