Martin Gijzemijter reports: Thousands of Dutch websites served up malware this week after what was initially thought to be a DNS server hack at SIDN, the Dutch administrator of the .nl domain extension. On Monday, the website of large Dutch online electronics retailer Conrad.nl was reportedly found to be serving malware, and was taken down…
‘Western Express’ credit-card fraud prosecution ends
Jeremy Kirk reports: The last member of a US$5 million global credit-card fraud ring was sentenced on Thursday in New York state court, ending an eight-year investigation and prosecution. Douglas Latta, 40, was sentenced to between 22 and 44 years in state prison, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. in a news release on…
Two former Sentara workers charged with identity theft
Scott Daugherty reports that two former Sentara Healthcare nurse’s aides have been indicted on charges of stealing the identities of at least a dozen patients as part of a tax refund fraud scheme. Several of the victims were patients at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital and all were reportedly patients of Sentara medical facilities in…
LulzSec Hacker Gets Year in Prison for Sony Attack
Annie Youderian reports: A second member of the hacking group LulzSec was sentenced Thursday to one year and one day in federal prison for his role in a computer attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Raynaldo Rivera, 21, of Chandler, Ariz., also must serve 13 months of home detention, perform 1,000 hours of community service and pay…
Firewall error by M2ComSys exposed 32,000 patients' information (Update 1)
A vendor’s firewall error has resulted in approximately 32,000 patients in 48 states being notified that some of their protected health information was exposed on the Internet. The vendor was medical transcription service M2ComSys, contracted by Cogent Healthcare. The latter provides physicians called hospitalists to hospitals operated by Genesis Health Systems. Neither Genesis Health Systems…
Smartphone Experts notifies customers of hack (Update 5)
From the this-doesn’t-sound-good dept.: Smartphone Experts discovered that the system used for customer payments for online shopping had been hacked. Although stored customer data were encrypted, Diana Kingree, the Senior Vice President of Commerce, noted that the hacker may have been able to use a decryption feature of the system to view customers’ names, addresses,…