Court denies Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss claims arising out of...
Ryan M. Martin of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois recently denied the retail grocery chain Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss various...
View ArticleIs This Journalist Guilty of Low-Level Vandalism, or High-Damage Hacking?
The case of the former Reuters employee accused of involvement in hacking the L.A. Times has finally gone to trial. Sarah Jeong reports: A defense lawyer for Matthew Keys, a journalist charged with...
View ArticlePayment processor YapStone sued over vacation rental payments data breach
From the well-that-was-quick dept.: Last week, this site reported that YapStone (VacationRentPayments) was notifying property managers and others who use their service to receive vacation rental...
View ArticleKmart customer details hacked
Asha Barbaschow reports that online customers of Kmart in Australia have had some their data hacked: Kmart has employed IT forensic investigators after the personal details of its online customers were...
View ArticleExperian’s servers hacked; 15 million T-Mobile USA customers affected (UPDATED)
There’s been another data breach involving Experian, it seems, although this one didn’t involve their credit reporting database. Instead, it involved data Experian houses for T-Mobile USA. In a letter...
View ArticleThe complaint to FTC about Experian that accomplished… what?
Today, Experian disclosed another data breach. This one affected 15 million customers of T-Mobile USA, for whom Experian hosts consumer data used for credit checks for new accounts. In tweeting my...
View ArticleAU: Retailer David Jones reports online breach
The Australian reports: Up-market retailer David Jones says its website has been hacked and private customer data stolen, a day after a similar attack on Kmart’s wesbite. David Jones said today that it...
View ArticleFTSE heads for weekly rise but Experian drops on US data breach
It’s always interesting to see if a company’s stock prices take any hit from a breach. Nick Fletcher reports on The Guardian: Leading shares are moving higher ahead of the US jobs data, with banks...
View ArticleNo, the Experian hack did NOT go on for over two years: it happened last month
In reading a lot of the coverage of Experian’s breach affecting those who applied for T-Mobile USA accounts, I noticed that some journalists and others seemed to interpret Experian’s statement as...
View ArticleGolden State Risk Management Authority notifying members of Systema Software...
Despite having been notified almost one month ago by Chris Vickery and/or Systema Software, some entities whose databases were exposed on AWS by Systema Software still do not appear to have issued...
View ArticleTrustev claims data spotted for sale on dark web likely stolen from...
After the OPM data breach was disclosed, there were reports that some of the stolen data had appeared on the dark web. Later those claims were found to be inaccurate. I wonder if we’re going to see...
View ArticleWho will pay to clean up massive T-Mobile hack?
Eric Scigliano wonders whether anything will be done to waive fees for placing security freezes in the wake of Experian’s hack involving T-Mobile consumer data: Yesterday I asked representatives of...
View ArticleChinese Hackers Breached LoopPay
Nicole Perlroth and Mike Isaac report: Months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung’s new mobile payment system, LoopPay, a small Massachusetts subsidiary of the South Korean...
View ArticleMatthew Keys Convicted of Helping Anonymous Hack The Tribune Company
Kim Zetter reports: An ex-Reuters employee has been found guilty of aiding members of Anonymous so they could hack his former employer. Matthew Keys, who was tried in Sacramento, was an online social...
View ArticleUber checks connections between hacker and Lyft
Dan Levine and Joseph Menn of Reuters report that Uber is attempting to obtain evidence that might link the hack of its drivers’ database to its chief rival, Lyft. An IP address of particular interest...
View ArticleMaybe every e-commerce site should assume they were hacked last year
Customers may be singing, “You got mud on your face, you big disgrace” when they receive a breach notification from GlamGlow, the latest business to disclose that it had a breach more than one year ago...
View Article(Now other) Advocates press federal regulators to investigate Experian data...
Priya Anand reports: Consumer and data privacy advocates are asking federal regulators to investigate the breach at credit bureau Experian, which compromised the personal information of millions of...
View ArticleDow Jones Discloses Customer Data Breach
Stephen Perlberg reports: Dow Jones & Co. disclosed that hackers had gained unauthorized entry to its systems, accessing contact information for current and former subscribers in order to send...
View ArticleFormer Comptroller of Albuquerque Construction Company Sentenced to Prison...
AP is reporting that Stephanie Pyle, 40, has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for fraud and identity theft. She was also ordered to pay more than $2.4M in restitution. Pyle was arraigned in...
View ArticlePeppermill Resort Spa & Casino discloses hack
Add Peppermill Resort Spa & Casino to the list of hospitality entities that were hacked last year but didn’t learn of it until this year. According to their notification letter of October 5, the...
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