As I had suggested previously in several tweets, those involved in the hack of Pharmacist.com may not have understood some of the data were that they acquired in the hack. They certainly didn’t understand the nature of their target. In a statement disclosing the hack, reproduced on CyberWarNews.info, the hackers had written: In an effort…
Category: Miscellaneous
Biting the hand that feeds your soul?
As reported back in October 2011, it was a somewhat unusual ID theft case involving inmates and church volunteers, but now Associated Press reports that the perpetrator has been sentenced to four years in prison: Church members join in worship with inmates as part of the Women at the Well ministry of the United Methodist Church….
Brian Krebs: Global Payments Breach Fueled Prepaid Card Fraud
Brian Krebs has more on the Global Payments breach and how it fueled prepaid card fraud. You can read his report on Krebs on Security.
ICANN to notify domain applicants of data breaches
Georgina Prodhan of Reuters reports: Organizations taking part in the most ambitious expansion of the Internet so far will find out next week whether their applications for new domain names could have been viewed by competitors as a result of a software bug. […] Beckstrom said he was confident the glitch in the system had…
BPAS hacker sentenced to jail
James Jeffery, who pleaded guilty to hacking the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in March, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.
Skeptical Science hacked, private user details publicly posted online
John Cook has posted a breach alert over on Skeptical Science. It seems that hackers got the entire users’ database and have dumped it on unnamed sites on the Internet. So far, I’m not finding those sites, so I’m not sure what all the data types are. If anyone has additional info on this breach,…