This site was contacted last week by a customer who had experienced the same problem as reported by other customers of Bike Nashbar (complaints here). Now the Citizen-Times is reporting that discount retailer Bike Nashbar (www.nashbar.com) is calling customers to warn them that their credit card information may have been stolen: A Citizen-Times editor received…
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Heartland Breach Affects OPFCU
And the impact of the Heartland Payment Systems breach continues: Having police officers around didn’t prevent this credit union from having to deal with a data breach. The Omaha Police Federal Credit Union is replacing 1,167 of its customers’ debit cards after being notified that the card numbers were among those involved in the data…
TX Security Guard Arrested for Hacking Hospital
Jesse William McGraw of Arlington, Texas, a/k/a “GhostExodus,” “PhantomExodizzmo,” “Howard Daniel Bertin,” “Howard William McGraw,” and “Howard Rogers,” was arrested by FBI agents last Friday on federal felony charges related to hacking into a hospital’s computer system. According to a statement by James T. Jacks, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas,…
VITA Faces Hacking Questions
Some Virginia lawmakers say they’re not getting the answers they need from Virginia’s Information Technology Agency or Vita. The FBI and Virginia State Police are investigating a security breach that took place in the state’s prescription drug monitoring database. On April 30th, a hacker accessed about 35 million computerized prescription records. Sandra Ryals, director of…
Exec Who Hacked Friends for Sales Gets Probation
A sales executive who used personal information to guess passwords, hack into e-mail accounts and listen in on conference calls at his friends’ companies was sentenced to probation Friday — a punishment the victims said was too lenient. David Goldenberg, 47, of Oceanside, N.Y., was fined $1,000 and sentenced to three years probation Friday for…
Prescription Database Breach Could Cost Contractor
The hack of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program may have serious consequences for contractor Northrop Grumman. The company had received a 10-year $2.3 billion state contract to upgrade the state’s computer system. According to stories in the Washington Post and Daily Press, the state has had issues with Northrop Grumman over the past few years…