Bonnie Barron reports that Heartland Payment Systems succeeded in getting a federal court judge to agree to dismiss most of the claims in a consolidated lawsuit filed by nine banks following a massive breach that affected millions of customers. Rosenthal granted the banks leave to amend the dismissed claims for breach of contract, breach of…
Category: Hack
Finnish travel service hacked; thousands of users’ passwords and e-mail addresses exposed
Another hack in Finland. A message on the home page of travel site Napsu.fi confirms that they were hacked on December 3 and that a list of registered users, usernames, email addresses and plain-text passwords were leaked. The firm is asking all registered users to change their passwords. From what I’ve seen so far, 11,976 usernames…
MoneyGram Security Breach
Chester Robards reports: A MoneyGram agent in the Bahamas may have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars this weekend as a result of its system being hacked, The Tribune understands. Harvey Morris, managing director of MoneyGram, Omni Transfers, explained that the agent’s system was likely hacked by someone residing outside of the Bahamas. He said…
Songs Fever gets dump instead of downloads
The message at the top of the data dump from “LOLIH4X0RDU” was to the point: Songs Fever dump. Dumbasses CHECK FOR SECURITY! (DB also had CC information, but ill leave it out of here.) The data from Pakistani-based Songs Fever, which were also posted on http://hack4cash.net/songsfever.html, contained 1,344 usernames, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords and…
250k users exposed in Naijaloaded hack
Missed this one while getting ready for Thanksgiving! Darren Pauli reports: Almost 250,000 user details of popular Nigerian youth forum Naijaloaded have been exposed after the site was hacked. A hacker by the name of TheMrX uploaded a shell on the website and accessed its 42mb user database. The database contained names, usenames, passwords and…
UC Riverside Credit/Debit Card Security Breach May Have Affected 5,000; Fraudulent Charges Reported
The University of California – Riverside issued the following notice today: UC Riverside is reporting that campus cash registers at food services locations were compromised by a cyberhacker. Although the problem was discovered and repaired last week, hackers may have gained access to 5,000 individual card numbers. The campus community has been notified by email….