NYS Attorney General James Sues Dunkin’ Donuts For Glazing Over Cyberattacks...
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a lawsuit against Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. — franchisor of Dunkin’ Donuts — for failing to protect thousands of customers targeted in a series of...
View ArticleHearing aid manufacturer hit by cyber attack slashes profits by $95 million
Graham Cluley reports: Demant, the manufacturer of Oticon hearing aids, has said that it expects losses of up to 650 million kroner (approximately $95 million) following a cyber attack earlier this...
View ArticleDunkin’ Donuts says there’s ‘no basis’ for lawsuit over 2015 security incident
Catalin Cimpanu reports that Dunkin Donuts has responded to the lawsuit filed by the NYS Attorney General with a statement to them that said, in part, that there’s “absolutely no basis” for the...
View ArticleAfter two nights in jail, St. Louis lawyer ordered to pay $775,000 to her...
Joel Currier reports that a former law firm employee who allegedly helped herself to copies of 22,000 files one week before she resigned for a new position elsewhere, has been ordered to pay her former...
View ArticleFormer Yahoo software engineer pleads guilty to using work access to hack...
SAN JOSE – Reyes Daniel Ruiz pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose today to hacking into the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexual...
View ArticleCafePress’s confusing incident response
On August 5, this site noted a report on Forbes that CafePress had been hacked. I had not used CafePress in years, so I was curious to see whether my data would be involved, but I didn’t hear anything...
View ArticleComodo Forums Breached, Data of Over 170,000 Users Up for Grabs
Ionut Ilascu reports: Account data belonging to more than half of all Comodo Forums users has been stolen and is now traded online. The breach was possible by exploiting a vulnerability in the software...
View Article218M Words with Friends Players Compromised in Data Breach
Dark Reading reports: A cybercriminal operating under the alias Gnosticplayers has broken into the Words with Friends database and gained access to 218 million player records, The Hacker News reports....
View ArticleAU: Contractor for Landmark White charged over Sydney data breach
AAP reports: A Sydney IT contractor has been charged over a data breach at a property evaluation firm that allegedly affected more than 270,000 people, cost the company more than $8 million and...
View ArticleBooking site’s data breach costs hit NT$33 million
CNA reports: Several customers of online travel website Booking.com in Taiwan have been vulnerable to fraud this year because of leaks of personal information, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)...
View ArticleMcAlisters Deli, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky’s Notice of Data Breach to...
October 2, 2019 Notice of Payment Card Security Incident California residents please click here McAlister’s Deli values the relationship we have with our customers and understands the importance of...
View ArticleED can withhold names of tax evaders in Panama Papers: Central Information...
PTI reports: The names of alleged tax evaders appearing in the Panama Papers leak can be withheld by the Enforcement Directorate from disclosure, the Central Information Commission has held. The...
View ArticleIN: Senior account manager arrested in Bengaluru
Kiran Parashar reports that 40-year-old senior account manager with a multinational software firm has been arrested and charged with stealing the firm’s employee information and client data. Although...
View ArticleHibiscus Petroleum suffers cyber attack
Mark Lammey reports: Hibiscus Petroleum said today that its IT system was “subjected to an attack” last week. The Malaysian firm said the affected parts of the system were isolated and partially shut...
View ArticleCredit Info Exposed in TransUnion Canada Data Security Incident
Lawrence Abrams reports: An unauthorized person was able to gain access to a TransUnion Canada web portal and use it to pull consumer credit files. This was done by using credentials stolen from a...
View ArticleTaconic Biosciences settles lawsuit stemming from 2017 W-2 phishing breach...
One of the victim companies of a W-2 phishing attack that this site reported in 2017 was a New York firm called Taconic Biocences. A copy of their notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s...
View ArticleCa: RCMP charge two Montrealers over cyber attack of Bell customer accounts
The Canadian Press reports: The RCMP say charges have been laid against two Quebecers for their alleged involvement in a cyber attack of Bell Canada customer accounts. Nana Koranteng and Jesiah...
View ArticleDozens of documents remain sealed in Chrysler hacking class action;...
The Madison-St. Clair Record reports: Chrysler shared its science with plaintiffs in a half secret class action over the vulnerability of its vehicles to hacking, yet it needed a court order to find...
View ArticleHackers breach Volusion and start collecting card details from thousands of...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have breached the infrastructure of Volusion, a provider of cloud-hosted online stores, and are delivering malicious code that records and steals payment card details...
View ArticleDutch Prostitution Site Hookers.nl Hacked — 250,000 Users’ Data Acquired
Thomas Brewster reports: Hackers have obtained the data and personal details of around 250,000 users of the Dutch sex work forum Hookers.nl. The breach was confirmed by a Hookers.nl moderator on...
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