Many off you will of seen, heard of or even received the very Merry spirit from just 2 Hackers this Christmas. The Hacker "Charrie Wong" who has been seen on CWN a few times before and even Australian TV on SBS insights & lulzfunny who seems fairly new have been on a Jolly "rampage" of…
Sarah, Hilary, Obama, and many others taken down again by OpBlackout
content/images/gallery/random2/opblackout-leak-exposes-obama-bush-and-every-cabinet-member-pastebin-com_.png Well, the name Sarah Palin well known for many reasons, but overall for being a total failure in politics and everything else. With all her emails and other personal information being leaked in the past, comes a new leak which is mainly target towards her but involved many others. The leak is 8 court…
WA: Renton Doctor Office Burglarized; CDs with patients' SSN and medical information stolen
ID Experts released this substitute notice in media on behalf of their client: The office of Paul C. Brown, M.D., P.S., was burglarized the weekend of October 14, 2011. The thieves broke into the office and stole various pieces of office equipment including CDs containing patient information data from 1993 – 2004. Upon discovery of…
TX: Ex-city workers sentenced for ID thefts
There’s a follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog. Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio couple who worked for the city was sentenced Thursday for using stolen Social Security information to buy a boat, jewelry and several vehicles, including two motorcycles, two Cadillacs and a $43,000 Corvette. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia gave Mary Mercy Lopez, 49,…
Ex-Credit Suisse worker guilty of data theft
And so a long-running data theft case ends. The Local (Switzerland) reports: The Swiss Federal Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday a former employee of Credit Suisse to a two-year suspended sentence for breaching bank secrecy laws and money laundering. The former bank worker was also fined 3,500 francs ($3,727) after he confessed to having stolen…
International Checkout notifies customers after hack of database containing credit card numbers
International Checkout, Inc. recently notified customers after a security breach involving a database containing credit card numbers. The breach was discovered in mid-September, although the firm does not indicate how it first became aware of the problem. Subsequent investigation, completed on October 31, determined that the breach had occurred on August 23. Those affected were…