Josh Kegley reports: Central Kentucky residents who recently ate at Puerta Grande restaurant in Winchester are urged to check their bank and credit card statements because of a major data breach. The breach resulted in the theft of credit card information from between 50 and 100 people, with reports still coming in Tuesday, Winchester police…
Category: Hack
Anonymous hack hands WikiLeaks TWO MILLION Syrian emails
Phil Muncaster reports: Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government and its evil overlord Bashar Assad thanks to which over two million emails ended up in the hands of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. As of last Thursday, the site began drip-feeding sections of the ‘Syria Files’…
BC Hydro asks customers to check bills after online security breach
Michael Mui reports: BC Hydro is asking its online credit-card customers to check their bills after a security breach was detected last week. Corporation spokeswoman Jennifer Young said the breach — which involved credit card information not being properly encrypted — has been corrected, but urges those who paid online with a credit card in…
Dutch employment agency applicant data allegedly leaked following extortion attempt
@quentynblog kindly pointed me to what appears to be yet another extortion attempt that resulted in a data leak when the breached entity wouldn’t pay: From the hackers’ post: Dear friends (and enemies), Last week, we hacked into the Web server of Accord.nl, a Dutch temporary employment company, downloading thousands of job applicant records. We…
Stratfor to settle class action suit over hack
Basil Katz reports: The global security analysis company Strategic Forecasting Inc will settle a class action lawsuit brought by one of its customers over a crippling attack by hackers who stole data of clients including Henry Kissinger, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in Central Islip on New York’s Long Island earlier this…
San Jose State University officials deny hacker’s data theft claims
Robert Salonga reports: San Jose State University officials are denying a computer hacker’s claims he stole a wealth of sensitive personal data from its largest student-run campus enterprise. Monday, a hacker going by “S1ngularity” announced via Twitter that he infiltrated a server for the Associated Students of SJSU, a student-run nonprofit that oversees a host…