DAVID W. KENT, the founder of professional networking website Oilpro.com (“Oilpro”), was arrested for charges relating to computer hacking and wire fraud. The charges stem from KENT’s alleged role in repeatedly hacking into a competitor’s database to steal customer information and attempting to sell Oilpro to the same company whose database KENT had hacked. KENT…
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Norfolk Admirals’ data breach exposes customers’ names, other information
Kimberly Pierceall reports: A hacker posted several thousand Norfolk Admirals customers’ email accounts, addresses and names on Wednesday, but the team’s online security firm says the data breach affected only about 250 customers. Norfolk Admirals Vice President Joe Gregory said his online security firm eliminated duplicates and spam email addresses from the list, significantly winnowing…
Hackers Breach Law Firms, Including Cravath, Weil Gotshal
Remember a few days ago when I noted that the FBI had issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms? This is related…. Nicole Hong and Robin Sidel report: Hackers broke into the computer networks at some of the country’s most prestigious law firms, and federal investigators are exploring whether they stole confidential information for the purpose…
vBulletin Servers Hacked, Admins Force Password Reset for All Users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Administrators of the vBulletin forums have started a site-wide password reset operation after an unknown attacker has gained access to one of their servers. Last Thursday the vBulleting.org (sic) and vBulleting.com (sic) domains went offline for maintenance and remained so until Friday afternoon. As soon as the forums came back online, all…
Anti-Semitic fliers at Princeton U., other colleges were work of known hacker
Kevin Shea reports: The anti-Semitic fliers found on printers at Princeton University and dozens of other colleges last week were the work of a hacker once prosecuted in New Jersey on charges he stole 120,000 email addresses from AT&T-connected iPads. Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, a self-described “white nationalist hacktivist” now living in the partially-recognized country of Abkhazia, said…
Update to #InvestBank hack?
I had reported on a hack and extortion demand involving InvestBank back in November and December of 2015. The bank hadn’t paid the extortion demand by “Hacker Buba” and massive amounts of data had been dumped. This week, there was an update to the incident. I’m not sure what to make of it, but a…