Bofta Yimam reports that a breach reported in 2014 that resulted in over 800 cases of tax refund fraud for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees may still be impacting employees this year: If you work for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, you may have to wait for your tax refund because of the…
Category: Hack
Third Circuit Questions FTC’s Data Security Authority
Kacy Brake of Alston & Bird provides her recap of oral argument in the Third Circuit FTC case against Wyndham. You can read her comments here.
How an Accused Russian Hacker on Tropical Holiday was Nabbed by U.S. Agents
Del Quentin Wilber describes the final chapter in the U.S.’s attempts to capture Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, aka “Track2,” who was arrested last July and charged with hacking hundreds of businesses. Seleznev, who had been indicted in absentia in March 2011, had over 2 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop at the time of…
‘ISIS Hackers’ Almost Certainly Not ISIS Hackers
M. Alex Johnson reports: The hacking of dozens of websites worldwide by someone purporting to be connected to the ISIS terror group — including a Montana credit union, an Irish rape crisis center and a local Italian political party — almost certainly has nothing to do with the Islamist militants, law enforcement and security experts…
Point-of-Sale Vendor NEXTEP Probes Breach
Brian Krebs reports: NEXTEP Systems, a Troy, Mich.-based vendor of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, casinos, airports and other food service venues, was recently notified by law enforcement that some of its customer locations have been compromised in a potentially wide-ranging credit card breach, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The acknowledgement came in response to reports by sources in…
Possible ISIS group hacks into 2 local websites
KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…