Meredith Cunningham reports: New details have come to light regarding the 2012 incident where a hacker was able to steal travel vouchers from the United Airlines website, then turn around and sell them for a profit. Ammon Cunningham from Saratoga Springs, Utah, is believed to be the culprit. The case affidavit claims that Cunningham emailed…
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Another Bizmatics, Inc. client notifies 7.500 patients of hack
Well, this is a bit different. Lafayette Pain Care, PC in Indiana notified HHS on May 9 about hacking/IT incident that affected 7,500 patients. In trying to track it down (there’s nothing that I could find on their web site), I came across a media report from May 10 that links this to the Bizmatics,…
“Phineas Fisher” provides tutorial on hacking police sites
From the can-the-skids-be-far-behind dept. Joseph Cox reports that “Phineas Fisher,” the anonymous individual also known as HackBack and GammaGroupPR, and who is reportedly responsible for the hack on Hacking Team, has released a tutorial video showing others how to attack police sites. I imagine the tutorial will not be up for long, but… In this case,…
NM: San Juan County notifying patients whose PHI were potentially viewable by hacker
KRQE reports: San Juan County is warning the public of a possible data breach in patients’ health records. Authorities say someone hacked into a county computer on Wednesday. An investigation shows no information was taken, but county officials say patients who participated in the DWI or Axis treatment programs may have had their personal information…
Archive of historic BT ’email’ hack preserved
For hacking history buffs: An archive detailing a historic hack and its fallout has been handed over to the National Museum of Computing. Previously, the cache of documents, press cuttings and letters had been kept by Robert Schifreen, who hacked BT’s Prestel system in 1984. He and Steve Gold took control of Prestel and penetrated…
Gatecoin CEO Reveals $2 Million Loss in Hacking Incident
Traderman reports: On Saturday, Gatecoin CEO Aurélien Menant, released a statement that details the nature of the hack and how the exchange managed to lose 15% of client’s digital currency deposits. Gatecoin has always kept 95% of all customer funds in multi-signature cold wallets, however, the hacker managed to alter Gatecoin systems in such a way…