Help Net Security reports: Seattle-based casual gaming company Big Fish Games has has (sic) its site and personal and financial information of some of its users compromised in an attack that started on last Christmas Eve. “An unknown criminal installed malware on the billing and payment pages of our website that appears to have intercepted…
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Optimus fine for employee snooping on journalist comms reduced from €4.5 mln to €100,000
Telecompaper reports: A fine imposed by the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (CNPD) on mobile operator Optimus (now Nos, after the merger with Zon) has been reduced from EUR 4.5 million to EUR 100,000, reports Tek. The fine was imposed for illegal access by an employee of the company to the detailed communications of a journalist…
The Target and Other Financial Data Breaches: Frequently Asked Questions
Sabrina I. Pacifici writes: The Target and Other Financial Data Breaches: Frequently Asked Questions “In November and December of 2013, cybercriminals breached the data security of Target, one of the largest U.S. retail chains, stealing the personal and financial information of millions of customers. On December 19, 2013, Target confirmed that some 40 million credit…
Accused Moscow Hacker Drinkman Arrives in U.S. for Trial
David Voreacos reports on the latest development in a case that has been going on for several years: Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite charged in the biggest data-breach prosecution in U.S. history, was brought to New Jersey to face trial after spending more than two years behind bars in Amsterdam, said a Justice Department official. Drinkman…
CA: More details emerge on Liberty Tax Service burglary
The Liberty Tax Service breach, first reported in the media based on a sheriff’s report, has now been reported to the California Attorney General’s Office. In its notification to those affected, Sam Filo, CEO of YBF Tax Inc., writes: We are contacting you to inform you that on February 1, 2015, a burglary occurred at our…
CA: Private Investigators Indicted for Hacking the Computers of People Opposing Their Clients in Civil Suits
SAN JOSE – Nathan Moser, Peter Siragusa, AKA Bobby Russo, Carlo Pacileo, Trent Williams, and Sumit Gupta, AKA Sumit Vishnoi, were charged with crimes related to a conspiracy to access the e-mail accounts, Skype accounts, and computers of people opposing Moser’s and Siragua’s clients’ in civil lawsuits. The indictment was announced today after it was unsealed…