In: Two corporate executives held for stealing online store’s data
Business Standard reports: Navi Mumbai Police has arrested two corporate executives for stealing data of a leading online store and selling it to other companies. The duo, one of them a director of a...
View ArticleCommon Market in Maine notifies customers of payment card breach
I’m not sure that posting a breach notification on a Facebook page is sufficient when you also have a web site where you could post the announcement. Assuming everyone is on Facebook is risky. Case in...
View ArticleNoble House Hotels and Resorts notifies customers at six luxury hotels of...
Luxury hotel chain Nobel House Hotels and Resorts is notifying customers of a breach they uncovered in the wake of reports by customers of fraudulent charges on payment cards. In a letter sent to those...
View ArticleFashion to Figure notifying customers of payment card compromise
Fashion to Figure (B. Lane, Inc.) is notifying customers of a breach involving malware inserted on their web host’s server. The malware was reportedly inserted on the unnamed host’s server on May 19,...
View ArticleCT: Alerted that banks had discovered a problem, Swiss Cleaners investigates...
Swiss Cleaners values the relationship it has with its customers and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. Swiss Cleaners was recently notified that banks had identified a...
View ArticleAustralian member of #Anonymous sentenced to jail
In May, DataBreaches.net began coverage of the prosecution of three men affiliated with Anonymous in Australia. The first, Mathew Hutchison (a/k/a, “Rax”) was charged with incitement and was sentenced...
View ArticleStarwood Hotels & Resorts reports payment card information breach at 54...
Austen Hufford reports: A data breach at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. exposed payment card information for some of its North American hotels, the latest cybersecurity incident to sting...
View ArticleW.W. Grainger issues password reset for users of their mobile app
Industrial supply company W.W. Grainger has issued a password reset after discovering a coding error in their mobile app that put usernames and passwords at risk. Nicely done: At Grainger, we take data...
View ArticleLinux Australia suffers another data leak
Sam Varghese reports: Linux Australia has suffered a second leak of data from its servers, according to a message sent to its main mailing list by president Joshua Hesketh. The umbrella organisation...
View ArticleData breach at firm that manages Cisco, Microsoft certifications
Alexander J. Martin reports: Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft’s certification management provider, Pearson VUE, has copped to a data breach following a malware compromise of its Credential Manager...
View ArticleTX: State sues defunct health care management firm after health records found...
Patrick Danner reports: A defunct home health care management company that was based in San Antonio has been sued by the state over clients’ personal information found in a recycling container at...
View ArticleAmazon force-resets some account passwords, citing password leak
Zack Whittaker reports: Amazon has force-reset an unknown number of accounts, after passwords may have been compromised. A number of readers told ZDNet they received an email from Amazon saying the...
View ArticleMaine’s Yellowfront Grocery hit by payment card breach
Yellowfront Grocery in Damariscotta, Maine, notified its customers via Facebook that it had experienced a point-of-sale (POS) breach on Oct 23. SCMagazine has some of the details. h/t, @VERISDB
View ArticleHilton Worldwide discloses malware-related payment card breach began in...
From a statement on their site today: Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) has identified and taken action to eradicate unauthorized malware that targeted payment card information in some point-of-sale...
View ArticleFifth arrest in TalkTalk breach as 18-year-old from Wales held on suspicion...
From the Metropolitan Police: A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. On Tuesday, 24 November, detectives from the Metropolitan...
View ArticleUK: ‘Get out more, play rugby’ Judge advises teen who DDoSed online gambling...
Bradley Jolly reports: Judge Michael Stokes QC encouraged Max Whitehouse, 19, to take up the sport after a court heard he was living a “virtual life”. He said the teen was one of many youths who spent...
View ArticlePlusnet ignores GCHQ, spits out plaintext passwords to customers
Alexander J. Martin reports: Contrary to password storage security standards, BT-owned Plusnet is still delivering plaintext strings back to forgetful users, and seems to have no plans to tidy itself...
View ArticleBreach at IT Automation Firm LANDESK
Brian Krebs reports that LANDESK may have been hacked as early as June, 2014, and the impact may extend beyond employee data being stolen: LANDESK, a company that sells software to help organizations...
View ArticleAustralian teenager accused of being part of group suspected of US Army hack...
Lauren Day reports: An Australian teenage hacker has raised serious questions about border security after he fled the country, despite having been ordered to surrender his passport. Dylan Wheeler, from...
View ArticleHungryhouse resets thousands of customers’ passwords
Kat Hall reports: Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach at a third party hosting company. Scott Fletcher, chief...
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