Remember back in 2010, when some hackers discovered an exploit with AT&T’s system that allowed them to access and publish account information for around 114,000 iPad users? One of the fellas behind that breach was sentenced earlier today to 41 months behind bars. [More]
JPMorgan Chase Site Hit By Cyber Attack That Kept Some Users From Accessing Accounts
By March 13, 2013
Banks are no strangers to cyber assaults on the sites customers use to access accounts, and it appears JPMorgan Chase was the most recent victim of such an attack yesterday. The bank said last night it was working to restore normal service after an unspecified amount of down time during the day. [More]
Has Your Phone Or Tablet Ever Been Hacked Or Hit With Malware? Tell Us About It
By February 11, 2013
We’ve crossed the Rubicon and there’s no going back. Smartphones are not only here to stay, they’re being integrated into just about every possible aspect of a consumer’s daily life. But that consolidation and integration only increases the temptation for some crafty folks to hack these devices. [More]
Sprint Says Virgin Mobile Site Isn't Completely Insecure; Blogger Disagrees
By September 19, 2012
Earlier this week, we told you about blogger Kevin Burke’s claims that the website for Virgin Mobile (a subsidiary of Sprint) is incredibly vulnerable to any hacker who could write a script to generate PINs. Since then, Sprint has told Consumerist that the site isn’t as much of an open door to hackers as it’s been made to be, while Burke claims that the phone folks are missing the point. [More]
Hackers Claim They Messed With BofA Website & NYSE Because Of Anti-Islam Movie
By September 18, 2012
Like most of you, we’ve never seen — nor have any intention of ever seeing — this Innocence of Muslims movie. (Gawker claims to have the full-length script, if you’re more interested than we are.) Regardless, the short film that apparently mocks Islam is upsetting people around the world, some of whom claim to have launched denial of service attacks against Bank of America and the New York Stock Exchange. [More]
Blogger: Virgin Mobile Accounts Are Vulnerable To Hack; No One Seems To Care
By September 17, 2012
A Virgin Mobile customer claims that it’s easy for hackers to access customers’ accounts via the wireless provider’s website — and not only is there nothing customers can do to defend themselves, the folks at the Virgin don’t really seem too concerned about it. [More]
App Publisher Claims Leaked iPhone IDs Came From Its Database, Not FBI
By September 10, 2012
As you probably recall, hackers recently claimed to have swiped unique tracking information for iPhone and iPads via a laptop belonging to an FBI agent, leading many to wonder why the lawmen would have this information in the first place. The FBI quickly denied any ties to the information, and now a publishing company in Florida is saying that the hacked list actually belongs to it and not the feds. [More]
Hackers Claim FBI Has Tracking Information For 12 Million iPhones And iPads
By September 4, 2012
Yesterday, while many of us were grilling various meats and dreading the inevitable return to work, hackers posted what they claim are 1 million unique identifiers for iPads and iPhones. According to the hackers, the source of this information is a significantly larger database held by the FBI. [More]
Best Buy: Hacker Attacks Are Increasing For Online Retailers
By June 11, 2012
Several weeks ago, we told you how several Best Buy customers were complaining that someone out there was attempting to make bogus, phantom purchases through their BestBuy.com accounts. We wondered at the time if the retailer’s site had been a possible victim of someone cracking into its customer database, but Best Buy says these unfortunate incidents are the result of ramped-up efforts by scammers against BestBuy.com and other websites. [More]
Payment Processor: Up To 1.5 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen
By April 2, 2012
The news from the hacked third-party payment processor for MasterCard and Visa got worse over the weekend, as early reported estimates of around 50,000 card numbers put at risk turned out to be wrong by 1.45 million. [More]
MasterCard, Visa Payment Processor Says Violation Occurred In Early March; 50,000 Cards At Risk
By March 30, 2012
Earlier today, we wrote about how MasterCard and Visa had begun notifying banks about a possible data breach at a third-party company that processes credit card payments. Now more information has come out regarding when the breach occurred and how many people may be affected. [More]
MasterCard, Visa Warn Banks Of Possible Data Breach
By March 30, 2012
MasterCard has notified law enforcement and banks that issue its cards of a possible data breach at a third-party payment processing company. [More]
Report: Info For 73,000 Porn Subscribers Has Been Breached
By March 12, 2012
A group of hackers has announced they’ve dipped into the personal info of 73,000 subscribers to porn site Digital Playground, tapping usernames, email addresses and passwords, as well as credit card information for 40,000 cards. Subscribers have been notified of the breach, and the site isn’t accepting new members. [More]
24 Million Zappos Accounts May Have Been Compromised
By January 16, 2012
Late Sunday night, several readers wrote in to say they had received an e-mail from the shoe-selling folks at Zappos.com letting them know that their personal information, including part of their credit card number, may have been compromised by hackers. [More]
HP Responds To Claims That Hackers Could Cause Your Printer To Go Up In Flames
By November 30, 2011
Yesterday, we brought you the story of a team of Columbia University researchers who claim they have discovered a way that hackers could infiltrate any number of networked printers to do anything from steal information to cause your paper to smolder and possibly catch fire. But the folks at HP, which was singled out in the report, have now come out to defend their product and refute the researchers’ claims. [More]
Researchers: Some Printers Vulnerable To Hack Attack That Could Lead To Fire
By November 29, 2011
It’s like something out of a movie starring Matthew Broderick. Researchers at Columbia University claim they’ve discovered a vulnerability that could let hackers remotely access your printer for nefarious hijinks, like making said printer go up in flames. [More]
Hershey's Website Hacked… To Change Recipe
By August 3, 2011
While a number of websites and mailing lists have fallen victim to attacks intent on stealing personal information or just proving that the hack was possible, whoever managed to penetrate the security of the Hershey’s Chocolate website had a much more insidious goal: changing recipes. [More]
Which Credit Card Companies Do The Best At Keeping Your Data Safe?
By June 28, 2011
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there have already been 216 credit card data breaches in 2011, including the Citi hack that resulted in $2.7 million of stolen funds. And while the number of breaches is down from 333 during the same period of time from last year, the security of our credit card information is still a big concern. [More]
