MEETME STATUTORY NOTICE NEW HOPE, Pa., August 15, 2014 — MeetMe, Inc. today announced that it has recently discovered a security breach within its network that compromised certain information in at least some MeetMe user accounts. Specifically, between August 5 and 7 of this year, MeetMe believes that hackers gained access to some user names, email addresses, and encrypted…
Category: Hack
Restaurant Mizado Cocina says customer credit card data breached by hacker
Katherine Sayer reports: New Orleans restaurant Mizado Cocina says customers’ credit and debit card information could have been stolen by a hacker who breached the restaurant’s point of sale system between May 9 and July 18. The business discovered that a hacker installed a previously unidentified malware called Backoff, which targets point of sale systems, on…
Wyndham Says FTC Must Detail Consumer Harm In Data Suit
Kira Lerner reports: Wyndham Worldwide Corp. told a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission must prove that the cyberattacks against the hotel chain, which the agency alleges led to more than $10.6 million in losses, caused “substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves.” Read more…
AU: Student Faces Two Years In Prison For Allegedly Hacking Frances Abbott’s Scholarship Information
Peter Terlato reports on a hack leading to a bit of a political flap: A 21-year-old communications student from the University of Technology, Sydney has been charged with gaining unlawful access to restricted files which contained information pertaining to Frances Abbott’s $60,000 scholarship. NSW Police issued a court summons to part-time librarian Freya Newman earlier…
UT: Man allegedly hacked systems at work and schools to steal data, change grades
Annie Cutler reports: A 26-year-old Brigham Young University student was arrested on charges of identity theft and computer crimes. Police say Gabriel Camacho stole personal information of his co-workers, other students and even professors at BYU and the University of Utah. It all started when Camacho was fired from his job when his employer suspected…
Prosecutors: Accused Russian hacker jailed here had 2.1 million stolen credit card numbers when arrested
SEATTLE — A federal magistrate, citing a possible flight risk, on Friday ordered accused Russian hacker Roman Seleznev held without bail pending his October trial on charges. […] During the hearing, prosecutors revealed that a laptop computer seized from Seleznev at the time of his arrest contains 2.1 million stolen credit card numbers. Seleznev, also…