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…
Category: Hack
Hackers get thousands of government workers’ info from Healthways subcontractor
Andrea Zelinski reports: Personal information on more than 60,000 government employees who participated in Tennessee’s employee health screenings may be at risk for identity theft, according to state officials. An unknown source hacked into Onsite Health Diagnostics’ computer system, according to spokeswoman Lisa MacKenzie. Information like employees’ name, date of birth, address, email address, phone…
ACTE members’ data stolen by hackers
Rob Gill reports: Hackers have stolen data of all members of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. ACTE’s executive director Greeley Koch said that there had been a “malicious theft” yesterday (August 11) of members’ names and email address, although no other data such as credit card details or addresses was acquired by the hackers….
Does Cybovar impact the security of your credit report?
In the wake of last week’s announcement that Russian hackers had obtained 1.2 billion user ids with passwords, the FTC issued some guidance that included changing our passwords. But while people may change their passwords to their own accounts, will they think to change passwords to databases that don’t hold their data, but others’ personal information?…
AU: City To Bay Fun Run: Hacker suspected of viewing personal details on website
ABC reports: Adelaide police are investigating whether someone hacked the City To Bay Fun Run website and took personal details. Part of the website has been taken offline and online entries suspended because of the possible security breach. The fun run committee said an unauthorised person might have viewed the names, email details and in…
Security breach in NIC, critical data at risk
Salkat Datta reports: A major security breach of the National Informatics Centre (NIC), which runs all the emails of senior officials and websites of all central government departments, allowed hackers to issue several fraudulent digital certificates, raising global concerns about India’s net security practices. The NIC is one of the select few authorised entities allowed…