Craig Timberg reports: Hackers broke into The Washington Post’s servers and gained access to employee user names and passwords, marking at least the third intrusion over the past three years, company officials said Wednesday. The extent of the loss of company data was not immediately clear, although officials planned to ask all employees to change their user…
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Sources: Target Investigating Data Breach (update 1)
Brian Krebs has the scoop on what sounds like another major data breach – again: Nationwide retail giant Target is investigating a data breach potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records, multiple reliable sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The sources said the breach appears to have begun on or around Black Friday 2013 —…
Russian hackers stole 54 million Turkish citizens’ ID data: Claim
OK, I’m posting this with a caution that it has not really received any official confirmation and I don’t know if any proof of hack or claims has been posted anywhere at this point: Russian hackers have seized 54 Turkish million citizens’ ID data because Turkey’s political parties and the country’s Supreme Election Committee (YSK)…
VA: Hacker Sentenced For Breaking Into Medical School Application Computers
Bosung Shim, 24, of Rockville, MD, was sentenced today to three months in prison, followed by seven months in community confinement and three years of supervised release, for unauthorized access of a protected computer. In addition, Shim was required to pay $31,653.24 in restitution to the victim and forfeit the computer equipment used in the…
EZ Yield notifying customers of hack involving online hotel reservation system
EZ Yield, a third party hotel reservation service provider, has started notifying customers that their credit card information may have been compromised by hackers. You can read the notification here (pdf). Update: idRADAR.com has delved into this breach report more. See their comments here.
PA: Devon man, computer hacker known as ‘Green,’ sentenced for stealing usernames
Alex Wigglesworth reports: A judge has sentenced a Pennsylvania man to 18 months in prison for a hacking scheme in which he stole login credentials for a number of computer networks, then sold access to them to third parties. Andrew James Miller, 24, of Devon, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy and computer fraud. According…