Brian Krebs reports: Parking services have taken a beating this year at the hands of hackers bent on stealing credit and debit card data. This week’s victim — onestopparking.com — comes compliments of the same organized crime gang thought to be responsible for stealing tens of millions of card numbers from shoppers at Target and Home Depot. Read more on…
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FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory
Tal Kopan reports: FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator — another example of the continuing whodunit blame game around the devastating attack. Even the unprecedented decision to release details of an ongoing FBI investigation…
Lokai Holdings notifies customers of payment card breach
Lokai Holdings is notifying customers who made purchases on mylokai.com between July 18, 2014 and October 28, 2014 that their payment card information (name, address, payment card number, expiration date, verification code, and the user name and password for customer accounts) may have been compromised. You can read their template notification here. The metadata for the breach that they submitted to…
#Anonymous dumps 13,000 passwords (updated)
Updates: See this post and this article for debunking that these are new leaks. Julie Bort reports: The hacker group known as Anonymous released a file on Friday containing about 13,000 passwords, it claims. […] But these accounts come from a variety of online sources, the Anonymous claims, some of them really popular. DailyDot’s Aaron Sankin sifted…
FBI warned Year Ago of impending Malware Attacks—But Didn’t Share Info with Sony
Jana Winter reports: Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S. companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance for U.S…
Harmonic strikes discordant note with employee data protection
And here’s yet another recent case out of California where a laptop with personal information was stolen from a vehicle. This time, it’s Harmonic: We are writing to inform you of a potential information security incident involving your personal information. While Harmonic does not know whether your personal information has been or will be misused,…