On December 31, a self-described teenage hacker from Australia who calls himself “Abdilo” claimed to have hacked into dozens of education entities by exploiting SQLi vulnerabilities. Metropolitan State University acknowledged they were breached, but what is going on with the other educational entities that were allegedly hacked, too? Abdilo claims that he started attacking .edu sites back in…
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Wingstop Announces Data Security Incident Affecting Four Franchise Locations
DALLAS — Wingstop today announced that four of its independently owned and operated franchise locations may have been impacted by a data security attack on point-of-sale (POS) systems that could have enabled attackers to capture customer payment card information such as account number, expiration date or cardholder name. After receiving indications of suspicious activity, the company…
MN: Hacker breached Metropolitan State University database with personal info
Maura Lerner reports: Metro State University is investigating a computer security breach that may have exposed personal information about students, faculty and staff. In a campuswide e-mail Friday, interim president Devinder Malhotra wrote that a computer hacker apparently got “unauthorized access” to the university database in mid-December, and that investigators are still trying to determine…
Ex-Citadel employee sentenced to three years for data theft
Bloomberg reports: A former Citadel LLC employee who admitted stealing data from the Chicago-based investment firm as well as high-frequency trading computer code from a New Jersey company was sentenced to three years in prison. Yihao “Ben” Pu, who was charged in 2011, pleaded guilty in August to stealing proprietary information from Citadel in 2011 and to…
GA: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen hacker
Donna Lowry reports: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen who they believe hacked into his teachers’ emails for nine months. The district sent home a letter today to parents of students at North Springs Charter High School telling them that last year, a student gained access to the email login information for 21…
It’s not just Park ‘n Fly: OneStopParking also confirms data breach
Kentucky-based OneStopParking has also disclosed a data breach. You can read a copy of their notification letter to consumers on the Vermont Attorney General’s web site (pdf).