The popular computer and electronics Web retailer NewEgg has apparently been hit by the same payment-data-stealing attackers who targeted TicketMaster UK and British Airways. The attackers, referred to by researchers as Magecart, managed to inject 15 lines of JavaScript into NewEgg’s webstore checkout that forwarded credit card and other data to a server with a […]
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Korean banks sue Newegg, allege online retailer aided massive fraud
Enlarge / Totes on a conveyor belt which will be used to pick an order inside Newegg’s small item warehouse as seen on July 2, 2014 in the City of Industry. Newegg is a leading online retailer. (credit: Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Newegg, the well-known online electronics retailer and slayer of patent […]
Newegg fought its way through two appeals to win fees from this patent-holder
Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng. (credit: Newegg) In 2010, AdjustaCam LLC filed suit (PDF) in Eastern Texas against dozens of companies, saying that they infringed US Patent No. 5,855,343, which describes a type of movable camera clip. AdjustaCam is a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, the biggest public patent-holding company. The AdjustaCam lawsuit included camera makers like Gear Head […]
Encryption patent that roiled Newegg is dead on appeal
Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites. (credit: USPTO) Patent-holding company TQP Development made millions claiming that it owned a breakthrough in Web encryption, even though most encryption experts had never heard of the company until it started a massive […]
