The website for Farrah Abraham’s new frozen yogurt shop was hacked, and its homepage replaced with a graphic clip from her sex tape. Read more on FoxNews.
Computer Hacker Pleads Guilty In Credit, Debit Card Scheme
A 27-year-old computer hacker pleaded guilty Friday to being part of an international conspiracy to steal account information from major banks in the United States in order to steal money from ATMs all over the world. As WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported, Qendrim Dobruna admitted to hacking into the systems of J.P. Morgan Chase, which processed transactions by the…
UK: Fine for car rental manager who sold customer details to claims company
A former rogue manager at a Merseyside branch of the car rental company Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after unlawfully stealing the records of almost two thousand customers before selling them to a claims management company. Appearing at Wirral Magistrates Court today, 29 year-old Stephen Siddell was prosecuted under…
Oakland schools warn of security breach impacting workers
KTVU reports: Officials at Oakland schools are warning of a security breach involving social security numbers. The superintendent emailed parents and staff Friday that five employees had their identities compromised. The employees were painters, carpenters and others who work for the buildings and grounds. Read more on KTVU.
NZ: Proposed data breach fines a ‘drop in the ocean’
Rob O’Neill reports: The New Zealand government is expected to introduce a rewrite of privacy laws into Parliament next year, but one security expert says the proposals are imprecise and don’t go far enough. Trend Micro’s senior security architect Peter Benson says data breach disclosure laws are long overdue and will bring New Zealand into…
UIC warns of possible data breach; business, accounting students at risk
Some former University of Illinois Chicago students were warned last week of a breach that left personal information, including Social Security numbers, publicly accessible. A website security breach made two College of Business Administration documents from the 2002 spring semester accessible — a roster from a Special Topics in Accounting course and an advising list…