Matt Brian reports: As we reported earlier, it appeared that the Gawker Media organization’s social media accounts (namely Twitter) had been compromised. While Twitter specifically appears to have been fixed, there’s more to the story. We have been in touch, personally, with the a member of the party responsible for the attack and it appears that the compromised…
Category: U.S.
TX: Tax returns and loan documents found unshredded in dumpster
Andy Liscano reports: Someone mailed an envelope anonymously to Action Ten’s Andy Liscano. It didn’t have a return address on it. But inside were tax returns and loan documents for 7 Corpus Christi residents. Sensitive personal information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially be disastrous for these people. One of them is a Corpus…
Feds: Former dean hacked into system, sent students e-mail threats
Natasha Korecki reports on a wild case in the federal courts: It was 2007 when Kaplan University students received a disturbing message in their e-mail inboxes. “YOU ARE F—–!” was the subject heading. And it was signed by the head of the online school. “Your schools (sic) Web site has been Hacked!” the e-mail threatened….
NY: Flushing man sentenced for credit card scam
This story from the Buffalo News is the kind of story that I find frustrating in terms of reporting: A Flushing man was sentenced to a year in prison for stealing credit card numbers that were used to withdraw more than $510,000, U. S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. said. Cheng Si Chen, 58, was…
VA: Alexandria Man Sentenced To 120 Months For Conspiracy and Aggravated Identity Theft
James S. Mooney, 44, of Alexandria, Va., was sentenced today to a total of 120 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Mooney was also ordered to forfeit and pay restitution in the amount of $40,762.26. Mooney initially pled not guilty and…
Hackers steal Walgreens e-mail list, attack consumers
Bob Sullivan reports: Pharmacy giant Walgreens had to swallow some bitter medicine on Friday when it told customers that a computer criminal had stolen its e-mail marketing list. The criminal used the list to send out realistic-looking spam that asked recipients to enter their personal information into a Web page controlled by hackers. “We are…