Rachel Stockman reports: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a security breach at Atlanta-based Home Depot’s corporate headquarters. According to a criminal complaint, three human resources employees were arrested after accessing employees’ confidential information and opening fraudulent credit cards. […] Home Depot has notified the affected employees and is offering free credit monitoring. Read more…
Category: Business Sector
Target breach happened because of a basic network segmentation error
Following up on Brian Kreb’s report that attackers were able to get to Target’s payment card system after compromising the login credentials of HVAC contractor Fazio Mechanical Services,, Jaikumar Vijayan gets responses and comments from several experts on what appears to be Target’s failure to properly segment its network. You can read his article on Computerworld.
St. Louis member of “Anonymous” sentenced for DDoS on Koch Industries subsidiary
Christopher Michael Sudlik, 22, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $110,932.71 in restitution. The sentence was announced yesterday by James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Sudlik had previously pled guilty for participating in #OpWisconsin with other members…
NullCrew claims hack of Comcast mail servers
The hacker collective known as NullCrew has been busy. After making some waves with their hack of a Bell Canada subdomain operated by a third-party supplier, the hacking collective just announced a hack involving Comcast. As it did with Bell, the @NullCrew_FTS account on Twitter gave advanced notice that they would be announcing the hack…
Target Hackers Broke in Via HVAC Company – Krebs
Brian Krebs gets the scoop again: Last week, Target told reporters at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters that the initial intrusion into its systems was traced back to network credentials that were stolen from a third party vendor. Sources now tell KrebsOnSecurity that the vendor in question was a refrigeration, heating and air conditioning subcontractor that has worked at a…
White Lodging releases additional information about data breach investigation (updated)
Forgot to post this one the other day…. MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Feb. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Officials of White Lodging Services Corporation, an independent hotel management company, announce the suspected breach of point of sales systems from the period March 20 – December 16, 2013 at food and beverage outlets, such as restaurants and lounges, at 14 properties. In addition,…