RegistratioNation is a provider of automated online payment processing and database management for event registrations. On December 23, their attorneys notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of an intrusion that occurred on November 4, 2013. The intrusion was discovered on November 22, and during investigation, the firm discovered that although payment card information was supposed…
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Orient-Express Hotels notifies guests after data security breach (updated)
The Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. and its subsidiaries have notified an unspecified number of customers of a breach involving their credit card information. On September 24, 2013, the luxury travel firm learned that an unauthorized individual had gained access to seven corporate e-mail accounts between July 2013 and September 24. Customers’ names, payment card numbers, card…
Data breach cost $3.7m, claims report
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports on the cost to the U.S. of investigations involving U.K. hackers: Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, was arrested in October over charges which include allegations he hacked the US Department of Energy (DoE) computers. A report says personal information on 104,000 people could have been taken. It says dealing with…
WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison
Eric Jou reports: Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. Read more on Kotaku.com.
Conviction in hacking of Russian president’s site
If you had to guess what sentence someone would get for hacking the Russian president’s web site, what would you guess? The Voice of Russia reports: The Tomsk Sovetsky District Court has found a local resident guilty of hacking the Russian president’s site, the court press service reported on Monday. “In May 2012, the defendant…
Cruises Inc. notifies customers after booking system accessed by compromised login credentials
Back in August, I reported: Smartphone Experts discovered that the system used for customer payments for online shopping had been hacked. Although stored customer data were encrypted, Diana Kingree, the Senior Vice President of Commerce, noted that the hacker may have been able to use a decryption feature of the system to view customers’ names, addresses, credit or…