Tom Jowitt reports: The attack on eBay was a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, in which users were redirected to a spoof website designed to steal their credentials. It is not known at this stage, how many users have been affected, said the BBC. “It would be nice to think that eBay, one of the world’s most popular…
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Hacker Team Infiltrates U.S. Airlines Computer Mainframe
Rachel Donald reports: According to information from an U.S. Senate Panel, the U.S. Airlines [sic] computer system was recently infiltrated by hackers in association with the Chinese government. The same hackers also entered the computer systems of other companies, especially tech companies or contractors with involvement in U.S. troops or military equipment management. The news…
Senior IT worker at top tech law firm arrested for insider trading
Joe Mullin reports: A senior IT employee with the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has been arrested for grabbing the firm’s confidential client information and using it to trade stocks. FBI agents arrested 41-year-old Dimitry Braverman at his San Mateo, California, home on Tuesday morning, according to a report in the New York Law Journal. He was released…
NEAT Management Group joins stolen laptop club
Tim McCoy & Associates (dba NEAT Management Group) is notifying employees, partnering agents, and insurance carriers that their names, social security numbers, dates of birth, contact information, and in some cases, employer identification number, were on an unencrypted laptop stolen from a software programmer. The laptop theft occurred August 27, but it appears that NEAT did…
Home Depot notifies New Hampshire of breach
This just in: Hogan Lovells, attorneys for Home Depot, sent the New Hampshire Attorney General a notification of the breach. Their letter, dated September 9, reiterates that they first learned of a possible breach on September 2 and confirmed it on September 9. Home Depot still doesn’t have exact numbers, it seems. The letter says…
Va. Shore H&R Block owner pleads guilty to ID theft
Ted Shockley reports: The former owner of four H&R Block tax preparation franchises on the Eastern Shore of Virginia pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to taking personal information from a customer to obtain a line of credit for herself. Sherry R. Kelley, 41, of Exmore, had been indicted on 20 counts of felony…