In a shocking failure to protect sensitive details about dozens of ongoing criminal investigations, federal officials somehow allowed confidential information about sealed cases to be publicly accessible via the court system’s online lookup service, The Smoking Gun has learned. Over the past nine months, details of 40 separate sealed court applications filed by federal prosecutors…
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ABM Industries notifies employees that their data was stolen
This week, ABM Industries notified some current and former employees that their names and Social Security numbers are in the hands of a thief. According to the letter sent by ABM to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, on March 5, the Atlanta office of ABM was broken into and some electronic items were stolen. One…
Malware compromises infogroup payment transactions
Omaha-based Infogroup recently notified clients that their credit card information may have been accessed. Attorneys for the data, research and marketing company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on April 12 that the firm had recently detected that some of its computers had been infected with a virus that may have compromised some payment transactions….
Searching for free hosting? Hacking GoGrid is not the way to go.
On April 1, GoGrid LLC, which operates as GoGrid, ServePath, ColoServe and Upstream Networks, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected an unauthorized intrusion into their system. The intruder may have been able to view customer information for the period November 2008 until the detection of the breach. Exposed data included…
The Hackett guilty plea: Who is “Company One?”
When Rogelio Hackett, Jr. pleaded guilty earlier today, media coverage noted that investigators had found over 675,000 credit card numbers (“access devices”) on his computers or in his email accounts at the time his home was searched in June 2009. Reportedly, 359,661 of the 676,443 card numbers came from “Company One’s” customers. According to a…
Caught with 675,000 stolen credit card details, hacker pleads guilty
A computer hacker from Georgia pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and identity theft after authorities found more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his home computers. Credit card companies have traced more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions to the accounts that were breached by Rogelio Hackett Jr., 26, of Lithonia, Ga. Read more…