Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…
Indiana radio station hacked by Anonymous
WIVB reports: An Indiana radio station was apparently hacked Sunday evening. If you were tuning in to WXXR 97.3 in Terre Haute, you might have heard a message from “Anonymous.” “Anonymous” is an activist group that hacks websites, to express their views and messages. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the FM signal was intercepted and a…
UK public bodies leaked confidential information 150+ times
Jon Martindale writes: … public bodies including the NHS, government departments, police and local councils, have leaked data unsuspectingly over 150 times in the past six years. These statistics were dug up by WhatDoTheyKnow.com, an organisation which helps people make requests of local government and other bodies to find out what information they hold on individuals. Through…
FireEye intern accused in huge hacking bust
CNN reports that one of those busted today in the huge Darkode takedown and associated crimes was a FireEye intern. Among those charged with crimes was Morgan Culbertson, a 20-year-old from Pittsburgh. He’s accused of creating a nasty malware that infects Android phones, steals data and controls the device. Culbertson is currently a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon…
Accused Hacker Kingpin in Plea Talks With U.S. Over ATM Scam
Christie Smythe reports: A Turkish man accused by the U.S. of masterminding a scheme that siphoned tens of millions of dollars from automated teller machines around the globe is negotiating a plea deal, prosecutors said. Ercan Findikoglu, known as the “Predator,” has been held in a federal jail in New York since he was extradited…
PA: ‘Numerous’ Cases Of Identity Theft And Fraud Hits Phoenixville
Justin Heinze reports: There have been “numerous” cases of identity theft and credit card fraud in Phoenixville recently, and most of the victims have been patrons of Nudy’s Cafe, according to the Phoenixville Police Department. If you have visited any of the Nudy’s Cafe locations since March and paid with a credit card, police are…