Brian Krebs reports: New data gathered from the cybercrime underground suggests that the apparent credit and debit card breach at Home Depot involves nearly all of the company’s stores across the nation. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
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Harry Barker, Omega Net, Geekface, SuperValu Data Breaches Measured
I’ve covered three of these breaches on this blog before, but idRADAR has some new details and includes a breach I hadn’t covered, involving HarryBarker.com: It’s often tough to know how serious a data breach is in the days immediately following discovery. Some companies like to dance around the specifics. In other cases, there are…
UK: Computer hacker shut down Derbyshire holiday firm website in dispute over payment
Martin Naylor reports: A computer hacker shut down the website of a Derbyshire holiday firm with which he was in dispute “in an act of petty revenge”. A judge told Glyn Berrington that what he had done to Ashbourne-based Menorca Private Owners “was like stealing a workman’s tools”. Derby Crown Court heard how Berrington, 49, had that…
Bartell Hotels reports five of their hotels suffered compromise of customer data
Posted on Bartell Hotels website: We deeply value your business. The security of your personal information is our top priority which is why, as a precautionary measure, we are informing you of a data security incident which occurred between February 16, 2014 and May 13, 2014 that may involve certain credit card data, including your…
Banks: Credit Card Breach at Home Depot – Krebs
Brian Krebs reports: Multiple banks say they are seeing evidence that Home Depot stores may be the source of a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit cards that went on sale this morning in the cybercrime underground. Home Depot says that it is working with banks and law enforcement agencies to investigate reports of suspicious…
Namecheap says accounts compromised in hacking incident
Jeremy Kirk reports: Hosting provider Namecheap said Monday hackers compromised some of its users’ accounts, likely using a recently disclosed list of 1.2 billion usernames and passwords compiled by Russian hackers. The “vast majority” of login attempts have failed, wrote Matt Russell, vice president of hosting, on a company blog. Read more on CSOonline. “Likely” used? Interestingly,…