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More than 800 Montanans among breached Citibank accounts

More than 800 Montanans were among those whose credit card information was stolen last month by hackers who broke into Citibank’s servers, according to Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock.

Published June 27, 2011
Categorized as Local Stuff, Web Stuff Tagged Citibank, credit, credit cards, hackers, hacking, identity theft, Steve Bullock, theft

Bozeman makers unite

I saw this link posted to Twitter today, and it intrigued me. Bozeman now has its own makerspace, the aptly named Bozeman Makerspace. What’s a makerspace, you ask?

Published June 1, 2011
Categorized as Local Stuff Tagged Bozeman, hackers, hacklab, hackspace, Homepage Cafe, makers, makerspace

PBS hacked in retaliation for Wikileaks story

Over the weekend, PBS was hacked by a group called lulzec, which placed a story on the PBS site claiming that rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand.

Published May 30, 2011
Categorized as Web Stuff Tagged Bradley Manning, fake news, Frontline, hackers, hacking, hacks, lulzsec, PBS, Tupac Shakur, Wikileaks

Latvian men who helped with D.A. Davidson hacking to be deported

Three Latvian computer hackers who pleaded guilty to helping in an extortion plot against the Great Falls investment firm D.A. Davidson will be deported.

Published June 11, 2010
Categorized as Local Stuff Tagged blackmail, crime, cybercrime, D.A.Davidson, extortion, hackers, identity theft, Latvia
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