According to documents obtained under an open-records request, two of the hacks, perpetrated via phishing emails, are believed to have originated in foreign countries, while the source of the third remains unknown because incident logs have been destroyed. The report does not say when the attacks occurred, nor does it divulge what, if any, data was compromised.
Daily Archives: August 19, 2014
US won’t release Russian MP’s son being held on PoS hacking charges
A US federal court has refused to release Roman Seleznev, arrested in the Maldives under suspicion of rigging retail PoS systems to rip off credit card details. Prosecutors say he was caught with over 2 million stolen cards on his laptop and that he’d been searching the US federal court electronic filing system for charges against him. 
Supervalu says it was breached – is it the next Target?
US retailer Supervalu is warning customers that an intrusion of its network may have resulted in the theft of credit and debit card account numbers from up to 200 of its stores. Meanwhile, a related data breach affected another 800 stores for which Supervalu provides IT services. Could this be the next Target?
Twitter injects favourites into newsfeeds, but is it an ‘invasion of privacy’?
Twitter is taking people’s favourites – what many (mistakenly) have assumed were private – and sticking them into people’s newsfeeds, along with follow notifications. 