Joel Locsin reports: Following a data breach discovered last week, URL shortening service Bitly has enabled two-factor authentication to protect its account holders. In a blog post, Bitly chief technology officer Rob Platzer also said they traced the compromise to an unauthorized access to the account of one of the company’s employees. “We immediately enabled two-factor authentication…
Category: Hack
Autistic Hacker, “Eekdacat,” Helped FBI Nail Anonymous hacker, “Kayla”
William Bastone and Andrew Goldberg report: In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun…
Class action lawsuit filed against UPMC over data breach
Update: Ultimate Software Group has denied any responsibility for the UPMC breach and say they don’t think UPMC is even a client. Read more here. Original article: Bob Mayo reports: A class action lawsuit filed in federal court targets both the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a payroll software company it uses called…
Hacker Goes to Top Dutch Court in U.S. Extradition Fight
Maud van Gaal and David Voreacos report: Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite wanted by the U.S. on charges he helped lead a ring that hacked 17 companies including 7-Eleven Inc. and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ), is fighting a Dutch court ruling that would allow his extradition. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the nation’s top…
WooThemes users notified of payment card breach, 300 reports of fraud
Adam Greenberg reports: After about 300 cases of payment card fraud were reported within a few days, WooThemes, a provider of WordPress themes, began notifying users that three modified files were discovered on its server and that payment card data may have been intercepted during the checkout process. Read more on SC Magazine.
Target breach: 50,000 card numbers from Minn. for sale this week
Maury Glover reports: It’s been months since hackers stole the credit and debit card information of millions of Target customers, but the effects are far from over. In fact, thousands of Minnesota credit card numbers are currently for sale. […] In the wake of the breach, Target told customers not to cancel their credit cards…