Brian Krebs reports: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the parent company for more than 5,000 hotels worldwide including Holiday Inn, says it is investigating claims of a possible credit card breach at some U.S. locations. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources who work in fraud prevention at different financial institutions. Those sources said they were seeing…
Category: U.S.
NH Department of Health & Human Services hacked; 15,000 affected (UPDATED)
Todd Bookman reports: The state’s Department of Health and Human Services says personal information for as many as 15,000 clients has been breached. Names, addresses, social security numbers and Medicaid ID numbers were stolen, with some information posted on social media sites. The agency says a patient at the state-run psychiatric hospital in Concord accessed…
Oilpro.Com Founder Pleads Guilty to Hacking Competitor
There’s an update to a case noted on this site earlier this year. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of NY on December 19: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of…
PBSO deputy tied to $283,000 identity-theft scam
Mike Stucka reports: The Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy arrested Thursday on federal identity-theft charges is tied to a longtime scamster who pleaded guilty this year to a $283,00 identity theft, as well as being part of a $387,000 fraud to rent dozens of houses that weren’t his. A Homeland Security agent’s affidavit against deputy Frantz Felisma, 42,…
Chinese Nationals Charged With Hacking Firms to Steal M&A Info
Mark Hamblett reports: Three Chinese nationals face federal charges for allegedly hacking into two major U.S. law firms in a scheme to trade on information about imminent mergers and acquisitions. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York announced Tuesday that Iat Hong, Bo Zheng and Hung Chin have been charged with…
Information On Americans Seeking Russian Visas Breached And Leaked
Alex Pfeiffer reports: The Russian Visa Center, a contractor which helps Americans obtain Russian visas, was allegedly hacked, and the information of around 3000 individuals has been leaked to The Daily Caller by the hacker Kapustkiy. The Russian Visa Center is part of Invisa Logistic Services and has five locations in the U.S. designed to assist…