Articles Tagged with hacking

Amazon.com Sued Over Zappos.com Data Theft Affecting 24+ Million Customers Updated: by

Amazon.com faces a class action lawsuit (below) over cyber theft of personal account data from more than 24 million customers that did business with the company's Zappos.com unit. A Kentucky law firm filed the lawsuit against Zappos.com just one day after the footwear e-tailer's servers storing customer account information were…

Indictment Alleges DDoS Attack on Gene Simmons’ Web Site by Anonymous Supporter Updated: by

A federal indictment unsealed today alleges that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a Connecticut resident who "was affiliated with Anonymous" brought down KISS band member Gene Simmons' web site last year. The felony charges allege that Poe and other unnamed co-conspirators used an open source software program to send…