Karina Brown reports: A class action claims Fox Entertainment Group hacked into millions of computers to install “rogue, cookie-like tracking code” to snoop on people who visit Fox’s “American Idol” website. The class claims Fox and Clearspring Technologies committed crimes, circumvented privacy settings, and that the rogue devices reinstall themselves even if their victims can…
Category: Unauthorized Access
UK hacker fined for personnel database mischief
John Leyden reports: A court has ordered a UK hacker to pay compensation after he used a purloined laptop to hack into his ex-employer’s personnel database. Colin Parker, 31, gained unauthorised access to staff contracts containing salary details and emailed this to around 400 workers at his ex-employer, CHI and Partners. Parker’s attempt to create…
Ex-Goldman Programmer Gets One Count Tossed in Case Over Software Theft
Patricia Hurtado and Bob Van Voris report: Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov, accused of stealing trading software from the bank, won dismissal of a count of unauthorized computer access, one of three charges he faces….. [U.S. District Judge Denise] Cote said that because Aleynikov was authorized to work on Goldman’s software…
Anthem responds to The Plain Dealer story
Sheryl Harris of The Plain Dealer recently took Anthem to task over a recently disclosed breach and suggests that it may be linked to at least two cases of fraud reported by Ohioans: […] How do two men who have never taken out payday loans wind up on a list of cash-advance frequent fliers? The…
Tuesday’s batch of newly uncovered breaches
In response to my Freedom of Information request, I received a batch of 15 breach reports received in February by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. Of the 15, five of them were news to me: M&T Bank reported that an individual walked into their Pikesville branch and while talking with a branch manager, removed another…
Maryland reports reveal yet more breaches
Thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, I just received copies of the 22 breach reports they received in January of this year. They’ll be sending me the rest of the reports received this year in the very near future. Looking through what they sent me, I see that we knew about the majority of…