Faizan Haider reports: Officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its Indian counterpart detained a Ukrainian national from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) on Monday for his involvement in Net fraud and identity theft. The man, Sergey V. Storchak, was travelling on a Jetlite flight S2 120 (Goa-Mumbai-Delhi). He is alleged to…
Category: Hack
Latvian hacker “Neo” found
Nathan Greenhalgh reports: A researcher at the University of Latvia’s Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science has confessed to being the hacker “Neo” who illegally accessed and enabled the publication of the tax records of Latvia’s political and business elite. Ilmārs Poikāns, 31 of Riga, was arrested Tuesday night by police after police confiscated two…
Picante restaurant is victim of credit card scam
Frances Dinkelspiel reports: Picante, the popular Mexican restaurant on 6th Street [in Berkeley, California] , has been the target of an international credit card fraud operation, its owner says today. Thieves from as far away as Russia managed to penetrate the restaurant’s credit card encryption system and steal the numbers of dozens of customers, says…
Heartland breach expenses pegged at $140M — so far
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The costs to Heartland Payment Systems Inc. from the massive data breach that it disclosed in January 2009 appear to be steadily adding up. Quarterly financial results released by Heartland last week show that the card payment processor has accrued $139.4 million in breach-related expenses. The figure includes a settlement totaling nearly…
Coincidence or….?
A glance at NYS’s Consumer Protection breach log for May shows that the state received 12 notifications yesterday — and all of them were hacking incidents. Twelve received in one day? Only one of them has been reported on this site previously (Monoprice). The numbers indicate the reported number of NYS residents affected: 05/06/2010 –…
Heartland Breach: Consumer Settlement Proposed
Linda McGlasson reports: A proposed settlement of the consumer class action suit brought against payments processor Heartland Payments System got preliminary approval from a U.S. District Court judge in late April. The proposed settlement would create a $4 million pool to pay consumers and settle the case. […] In a “fairness hearing” on April 27,…