Researching and reporting on data breaches has always had some element of risk attached. You can get accused of hacking, or you can get threatened with litigation. In Brian Krebs’s case, you can find yourself swatted. Or in my case, you can get threatened with infection of HIV. But with the exception of swatting, the rest pales…
Category: Hack
How Pirates And Hackers Worked Together To Steal Millions Of Dollars In Diamonds
Joseph Bernstein reports: Late on a Friday afternoon in early 2015, Chris Novak got a strange call. As the director of Verizon’s investigative response team, he was accustomed to desperate corporations dialing into the group’s 24-7 hotline to stanch the bleeding caused by cybersecurity crises — credit card fraud, financial fraud, intellectual property theft. “We…
Fired Network Administrator Takes Revenge in a Most Obvious Manner
Lauren J. Young reports: When PA Online, a former internet service provider based in Enola, Pennsylvania, fired its network administrator Dariusz Prugar in 2010, he left with a serious grudge. There would be revenge. Just days after Prugar was fired for personnel issues, PA Online noticed that its computers and web services were failing. Prugar, a…
Bailey’s discovers breach more extensive than originally reported
Well, I may have to walk back some of my praise for outdoor gear company Bailey’s after I first read and reported on a payment card breach they discovered and disclosed. The firm has updated its breach disclosure after subsequently discovering that the breach did not begin in September, 2015, and it wasn’t 15,000 affected. According to their…
Dozens of NextCare employees report fraudulent activity following Greenshades hack
More details have emerged on the previously reported Greenshades hack that resulted in tax refund fraud for many people. A reader of DataBreaches.net sent me an email this morning telling me that a relative who works for medical care provider NextCare received the following letter: Dear NextCare Employee, This is a notice for an ongoing internal investigation…
“Fappening” Hacker Pleads Guilty to Theft of Celebrities’ Naked Pictures
Matt Strong reports: Ryan Collins, the Pennsylvania man charged with hacking the Apple and Google accounts of several people, including many celebrities, has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, according to authorities. Prosecutors have recommended that Collins…