On April 1, GoGrid LLC, which operates as GoGrid, ServePath, ColoServe and Upstream Networks, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected an unauthorized intrusion into their system. The intruder may have been able to view customer information for the period November 2008 until the detection of the breach. Exposed data included…
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The Hackett guilty plea: Who is “Company One?”
When Rogelio Hackett, Jr. pleaded guilty earlier today, media coverage noted that investigators had found over 675,000 credit card numbers (“access devices”) on his computers or in his email accounts at the time his home was searched in June 2009. Reportedly, 359,661 of the 676,443 card numbers came from “Company One’s” customers. According to a…
Caught with 675,000 stolen credit card details, hacker pleads guilty
A computer hacker from Georgia pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and identity theft after authorities found more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his home computers. Credit card companies have traced more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions to the accounts that were breached by Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, of Lithonia, Ga. Read more…
Epsilon pledges to build ‘Fort Knox’ around breached system
Grant Gross reports: E-mail marketing giant Epsilon will build an industry-leading security system in response to a March 30 breach in which thieves gained access to the e-mail addresses and names of partner’s customers, the CEO of Epsilon’s parent company said Thursday. Epsilon had “very strong” security measures in place before the breach, but additional…
Software manufacturer Ashampoo hacked
Dear Ashampoo customer, We in the Ashampoo group take data privacy protection very seriously. Therefore we constantly strive to guarantee the maximum possible safety for our technical systems. Like many other companies we are targeted by organizations of hackers that try to break into IT systems in order to steal data. Unfortunately, one of our…
Loss of Personal Information in Security Breach Results in Loss of Some “Unidentified Value”
Craig Hoffman discusses a ruling in a lawsuit against RockYou over a security breach that is noteworthy for the plaintiff’s somewhat novel approach to demonstrating injury due to the breach: A December 2009 SQL injection attack against social network application maker RockYou.com’s database resulted in the breach of 32 million log-in credentials ( e-mail address…