Aug 30, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security, Malware and Exploits
Today we learned that two separate hotel chains are warning their customers that they have suffered point-of-sale malware infections that compromised customers’ payment card data. Both chains say they were alerted to related card fraud by the U.S. Secret Service...
Aug 23, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
More than 800,000 usernames, email addresses, and birth dates are thought to have been stolen by hackers from online forums run by Epic Games. Epic, famed for developing popular games such as Unreal Tournament, Gears of War and Infinity Blade, are thought to have had...
Aug 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
On July 5, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity reached out to Bellevue, Wash., based Eddie Bauer after hearing from several sources who work in fighting fraud at U.S. financial institutions. All of those sources said they’d identified a pattern of fraud on customer cards that had...
Aug 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
If you are one of the 3.7 Millions patients who received letters from Banner Health this months, their hack might not be news to you. What might be news, is that you’re only one of 3.7 Millions Patients whose details were leaked during the hacking event. The...
Aug 13, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
A hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee’s computers is now taking credit for hacking confidential files in a second hack of a related campaign group. Guccifer 2.0 claimed on Friday that he also attacked the private servers of the...
Jul 26, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Kimpton Hotels, an upscale boutique hotel brand that includes 62 properties across the United States, said today it is investigating reports of a credit card breach at a number of their locations. Today, Kimpton issued and posting the following statement: Kimpton...
