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.
Category: Hack
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…
Danner hacked; notifies customers (updated)
And it seems Danner has joined the ranks of the recently hacked. In a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by their lawyers on December 19, they report that on November 28, code was injected into the computer that operates their web site. The intrusion was detected on December 11. Forensic examination could not…
TechMedia Network to start notifying customers of hack involving credit card data (updated)
Oops? TechMedia Network will be sending out letters on December 23 that begin: We are writing to inform you of an incident that may have involved your personal information. On November 20, 2013, Techmedia Network detected an unauthorized intrusion into its systems that may have allowed access to your name, mailing address, email address, phone…
Web host Mannix Marketing hacked; Saratoga Sweets notifies clients (update1)
Saratoga Sweets is notifying customers about a hack of their web host’s server. They first learned of the hack on November 25. In a letter dated December 13, Michael Fitzgerald, Sr. writes that an unauthorized person was able to access the server containing customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and CCV numbers. Forensic…