Brian Krebs writes: In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy investigating disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme, Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, an institution formerly owned by the Stanford Group. […]…
Category: Hack
Watt may appeal sentence
Todd Wallack reports that Stephen Watt, the former Morgan Stanley coder who provided Albert Gonzalez with a sniffer program used to steal data from TJX customers, may appeal his sentence: Stephen Watt was sentenced Dec. 28 by a federal judge in Boston to two years in prison and three years of supervised release and ordered…
WA: 130,000 at risk after computer breach at EWU
Levi Pulkkinen reports: Following a computer breach earlier in December, Eastern Washington University will be notifying 130,000 current and former students that their identifying information may have been compromised. While it remains unclear whether any students or alumni have had their identities stolen due to the breach, officials with the Cheney-based university are preparing to…
UK: Hacker rattles 21,000 iPhone unlockers
Bill Ray reports: Hackers have mailed 21,000 customers of iPhoneUnlockUK to remind them the company uses unlicensed software, and that their details have been compromised. E-mails were sent out to customers of the iPhone unlocking service, with claims that iPhoneUnlockUK is guilty of stealing software and selling it illegally. The mail goes on to recommend…
Update AK: Source of stolen credit information was a restaurant
James Halpin reports: The source of the debit and credit card data stolen from hundreds of Anchorage residents in a sophisticated hacking attack was Little Italy, a family-owned restaurant in South Anchorage, its owner said Tuesday. Police say anywhere from 150 to 1,000 card numbers were stolen and used in the attack, which started generating…
Internet trading site collective2.com hacked
Davis D. Janowski reports: Users of the do-it-yourself trading site collective2.com received an “urgent” e-mail at a few minutes past noon Wednesday notifying them that the company’s computer database had been breached by a hacker and that all users should log in to change their passwords immediately. That e-mail, from Collective2 LLC founder Matthew Klein,…