Jackie Drake reports: Greenville Police are handling at least 100 complaints so far from East Carolina University students who say they lost money after their accounts were compromised in a recent security breach at the University Book Exchange. The breach is believed to have occurred between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25 and the case is…
Category: Hack
eHarmony Hacked
Brian Krebs writes: Online dating giant eHarmony has begun urging many users to change their passwords, after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity.com to a potential security breach of customer information. The individual responsible for all the ruckus is an Argentinian hacker who recently claimed responsibility for a similar breach at competing e-dating site PlentyOfFish.com. […] Joseph…
Anonymous Hacks into Security Firm’s Network and Steals Confidential Data
Another hactivist incident. Lucian Constantin reports: Members of the Anonymous collective have broken into the network of a security firm and exposed its internal communications, after it claimed to know the identity of the group’s founders. Last week, Aaron Barr, the head of an information security firm called HBGary Federal, told the Financial Times that…
Follow-up to RBS Breach: Russian hacker admits guilt in $10 million cyber theft x
Reuters reports: A Russian man has pleaded guilty in court to stealing $10 million from former Royal Bank of Scotland division World Pay in 2008 by hacking into accounts, RIA News reported on Monday. Investigators said 27-year-old Yevgeny Anikin was a member of an international hacking ring that copied client account information and boosted the…
LA: Teen charged with computer crimes
A Deville teen was arrested Jan. 29 and was charged with several computer crimes, said Rapides Parish Sheriff Chuck Wagner. Christopher Anthony Dauzat Jr., 17, was arrested by the CyberCrimes section of the Rapides Sheriff’s Office Detective Division and charged with computer tampering, computer fraud, cyberstalking and extortion. The charges stem from the electronic hijacking…
Credit Report Resellers Settle FTC Charges; Security Failures Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information
As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing campaign to protect consumers’ personal information, three companies whose business is reselling consumers’ credit reports have agreed to settle FTC charges that they did not take reasonable steps to protect consumers’ personal information, failures that allowed computer hackers to access that data. The settlements require the companies…