Brian Krebs, who broke the P.F. Chang’s breach, now has another scoop about the breach – that it appears to have gone on for at least nine months: New information indicates that the breach at the nationwide restaurant chain began on or around Sept. 18, 2013, and didn’t end until June 11, one day after…
Category: Hack
Evernote: Important information regarding your discussion forum account
Posted yesterday on Evernote: (Users impacted by this announcement will have received an email) The vendor that operates https://discussion.evernote.com has notified us that they had been hacked. The hacker was able to retrieve our forum members’ profile information. We don’t believe that the hacker accessed any private forum messages. Our forum is a completely separate service from…
Second member of #NullCrew arrested (updated to add complaint)
Following the arrest of a Quebec teen last week in the hacking of a Bell Canada supplier, a second person associated with #NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) has now been arrested. Kim Janssen reports: A hacker who targeted big businesses — including Comcast and Canadian Bell — as well as schools, including the University of Virginia, will face…
Privacy advocate files complaint with FTC over Maricopa County Community College District data breach
The 2013 breach at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona affected approximately 2.5 million faculty, staff, vendors, and students, making it the largest breach involving student information ever reported by a U.S. institution of higher education. A complaint by this privacy advocate alleges violations of the Safeguards Rule. Having researched and reported on breaches for about…
Paytime sued over breach
It was only a matter of time, right? idRADAR has the story and a copy of the complaint.
Stratfor hack: what the forensics showed
Cryptome has uploaded Verizon’s forensic investigation of the Stratfor hack in 2011. Their investigation began in December 2011 and was concluded in February 2012. You can read the report here (66 pp., pdf).