Cafe Press subsidiary EZ Prints is notifying customers that they recently detected an intrusion in their system that may have compromised card payment information. Only customers placing orders between September 22 and October 23 need to be concerned about this incident. The intruders reportedly exploited an unspecified vulnerability that EZ Print has identified and removed. The…
Month: November 2014
Audit: Portland, Oregon fails to comply with credit card data security standards
Fox12 in Oregon reports:- Portlanders who use their credit card to pay for parking meters and other city services may want to take a look at the city auditor’s latest report on payment card data security. The audit found Portland fails to comply with the industry’s data security standard when it comes to payments made…
Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users’ data
Jennifer Baker reports: The creators of this Irish government website may be fluent in Irish, but they are distinctly unversed in data security. The Líofa (Fluent) website – a Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure project – suffered not so much a data breach as a data giveaway! Users’ personal information such as names, addresses, emails and…
Link Found in Staples, Michaels Breaches
Brian Krebs reports: The breach at office supply chain Staples impacted roughly 100 stores and was powered by some of the same criminal infrastructure seen in the intrusion disclosed earlier this year at Michaels craft stores, according to sources close to the investigation. Multiple banks interviewed by this author say they’ve received alerts from Visa and MasterCard about cards impacted in the breach at Staples,…
AU: Veterans' Affairs forced to apologize over privacy breach
Paris Cowan reports: Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has ordered the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to apologise to one of its clients after it handed details of an ongoing dispute over to his employer. In a case that tests nearly every exemption to the Privacy Act’s non-disclosure provisions, Pilgrim knocked back repeated attempts by the DVA…
Connecticut Department of Labor confirms privacy breach; 64 individuals’ details exposed
WTNH reports: Ohan Karagozian is a licensed optician who says he filed a claim with the Connecticut Department of Labor for help in getting some back wages from a former employer. He says what he got back in the mail from the department shocked him. “I started looking through the folders and I did not…