Police in Maine are investigating a security breach of a jewelry company’s computer system that potentially exposed thousands of credit and debit card numbers, The Associated Press reports. The Maine Credit Union League said in a release the breach impacts customers who made purchases at Day’s Jewelers’ six stores last November and December, Sun Journal [...]
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China today rejected reports suggesting it was behind a January cyber attack on the Canadian government that breached the Treasury Board and Finance Department and forced their websites offline, according to media reports. Canadian news outlet CBC reported yesterday the attacks have been traced to servers in China. It was unclear whether the web intruders [...]
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Police in Spain have arrested a man for allegedly stealing personal data from thousands of Nintendo users by hacking into Nintendo Corp.’s online user database, the BBC reported. The alleged hacker got his hands on data of 4,000 gamers, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry. The suspect allegedly threatened to contact the country’s data protection agency, [...]
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A British man has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $12 million worth of poker chips from an online gaming company before getting caught, according to media reports. BBC reported that Ashley Mitchell of Paignton, Devon, admitted to hacking into online gaming site Zynga Poker to steal the chips. He then transferred 400 billion chips [...]
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A Michigan man charged with hacking into his ex-wife’s email told a jury he never tried to access the police database as prosecutors allege, UPI reports. Leon Walker was charged with accessing his former spouse’s email account to read her messages to find out whether she was having an affair with a man Walker said [...]
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Stuxnet is a word that has struck fear in the hearts of cyber experts the world over. The advanced computer worm, which bored its way into Iranian nuclear program computer networks, demonstrated the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to malicious hacking. But former counterterrorism czar and cybersecurity guru Richard Clarke says Stuxnet was actually a failure. [...]
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Despite being told he might be spared from jail, 23-year-old David C. Kernell, who was found guilty last year of hacking into Sarah Palin’s email during the 2008 presidential campaign, has ended up in federal prison, the BBC reported. Officials confirmed that Kernell reported Jan. 10 to begin serving his time at a federal corrections [...]
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A hacker broke into a database with the credit card information of 18,000 customers of the University of Connecticut’s Co-op’s HuskyDirect.com website, according to The Hartford Courant. The database hosted customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and credit card information, including expiration dates and security codes, the newspaper said. The HuskyDirect website offers Husky teams’ [...]
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North Korea is accusing South Korean web users of hacking into one of its websites, calling the behavior a provocation aimed at undermining its national dignity, according to The Associated Press. The North’s state-run Uriminzokkiri website said South Korean Internet users recently deleted articles on the site and posted messages slandering the North’s dignity, AP [...]
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A Catholic school board in Canada has taken action after discovering a young hacker accessed confidential records, including test scores. John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, told QMI Agency the eight-grade student at St. Anne’s School in Peterborough used his laptop, downloaded software and the board’s [...]
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