Olivia Pusinelli reports: The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa told guests this week it suffered a six-month “malicious software attack” that could have exposed credit card information, according to reports. The Houston Chronicle and KTRK ABC 13 report that the attack lasted from Dec. 28 to June 20 and that the U.S. Secret Service notified the hotel of…
Category: Malware
Russian hacker captured in 2010 Broadway Grill data breach
A 30-year-old Russian man was arrested over the weekend for a series of crimes involving hacking into point of sales systems at Washington restaurants including a data breach in 2010 that involved stealing credit card information from hundreds of customers of Capitol Hill’s Broadway Grill. The allegations detail at least $1.7 million in losses to banks and…
Brokerage firm Benjamin F. Edwards fell victim to CryptoWall infection
Dave Lewis of Forbes recently reported a breach affecting brokerage house Benjamin F. Edwards Co.’a customers. A copy of the firm’s notification letter to clients had been posted on the California Attorney General’s website as well as the Vermont Attorney General’s website. At the time, Lewis reported: On May 24, 2014 Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. had their computer systems compromised…
FL: Tampa woman gets prison in credit card fraud ring that targeted International Plaza
Tampa Bay Times reports: A judge sentenced a Tampa woman to seven years in federal prison for her role in an identity theft ring that stole credit card numbers from stores at International Plaza, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. Authorities said Danay Crespo-Rodriguez, 25, was part of a credit card fraud ring led by…
European bank ‘hit by sophisticated cyber-thefts’
BBC reports: Kaspersky Lab said it had detected a computer server in January being used to co-ordinate an attack that appeared to have snatched more than 500,000 euros ($700,000; £400,000) over the course of a single week. The firm said it believed most of the victims were based in Italy and Turkey. It said that it had…
Russian Charged With Running $100 Million Data Theft Plot
Sophia Pearson reports: An accused Russian hacker faces U.S. charges over his suspected development of malicious computer software that cybercriminals used to steal more than $100 million from businesses and consumers since 2011. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 30, ran a criminal ring responsible for Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker, a form of malware known as ransomware, the…