A small news item seen on WILX (typos in the original): A heads-up for LCC dental and vision plan customers—- check your bank records— there’s a possibility hackers may have your personal information. The possibility security breach with Assurecar Risk Management also affects former participants and family members who were on the plan. Hackers were not…
Category: U.S.
(follow-up) St. Louis man sentenced for stealing credit card numbers
Following up on a breach reported previously on this blog, a man who recruited a waitress at f Amarillo Tex’s Steak House in Alton to skim card information has been sentenced for his part in the scheme. The Telegraph reports: Miltiano Trevaris Johnson, 31, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, where…
Stevens Institute of Technology hacked; user data dumped
Another hack by #AntiSec, this time the New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology. 31 first and last names, usernames, passwords (plaintext!) and email addresses exposed on Pastebinon July 7. And in many cases, the passwords are identical to the simple usernames. Not good. I emailed Stevens over the weekend to ask them about the breach…
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack on Booz Allen Hamilton (updated)
Sam Biddle reports: Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they’ve leaked it. The leak, dubbed ‘Military Meltdown Monday,’ includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US…
If you were a customer of Geoff Gray Corporation, your breach notification letter may be in the mail
Financial services provider Geoff Gray Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office this week of a “potential security breach” that occurred sometime between June 9th – when one of their servers was working properly and accessible – and June 14, when they were notified that the server wasn’t accessible. Their July 5th letter states that…
Hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison
There are so many press releases these days about people being sentenced for ID theft or hacking that I often just skim them, but this one caught my eye. Mark Morris reports on the sentencing of Sael Mustafa … According to prosecutors, Mustafa hacked into websites of several businesses, including that of the Capital Grille…