It looks like a member of NullCrew has been arrested. The Canadian Press reports: The Mounties have charged a young offender in Quebec after the user names, passwords and credit-card information from some of Bell Canada’s small-business customers were posted online. The RCMP say they started investigating after one of Bell’s third-party IT suppliers was cyberhacked….
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P.F. Chang’s confirms theft of customer card data
Steven Musil reports: Restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro confirmed Thursday that customer data and debit card information was stolen in a data breach at its store locations. The Asian-themed restaurant chain, which announced earlier this week it was investigating a possible theft of customer data, offered few details of the intrusion but said in…
U.S. indicts Romanian for crimes of hacker ‘Guccifer’
More bad news for “Guccifer,” the hacker who was arrested in Romania in January and sentenced last week to four years in jail. Reuters reports that he’s now been indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S.: Marcel Lazar Lehel, a former taxi driver, is already in a Romanian jail after being sentenced there…
Craftsman Book’s Credit Card Files Hacked
While I was away at PLSC, Jeanne Price of idRADAR reported: An estimated 11,000 home improvement contractors and do-it-yourselfers who bought products from Craftsman-book.com can expect a data breach alert in their mailbox or email Inbox soon. “May 27, we discovered unauthorized activity on a website maintained by our company, Craftsman Book Company. On May 28 we…
Update: Paytime breach may affect 233,000
WITF reports that the Paytime breach affected even more than previously disclosed: Cumberland County-based Paytime says as many as 233,000 people may be affected by a data breach. The payroll processor distributed about 88,000 W-2’s in 2012, but says in a filing with the North Carolina Attorney General that dependents and spouses information may have also been…
Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang’s – Banks
Brian Krebs reports: Nationwide chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen from restaurant locations nationwide. On June 9, thousands of newly-stolen credit and debit cards went up for sale on rescator[dot]so, an underground store best known for selling tens of millions of…