There’s been a reported payment card breach involving the Detroit Zoo‘s gift shop’s third-party vendor: Service Systems Associates is reporting stolen credit card information. Malicious software, or “malware,” was found in SSA’s software, affecting purchases made at the zoo gift shops between March 23 and June 25, 2015. In addition to credit and debit card…
Month: July 2015
Islamic State supporters hack website of Syria rights watchdog
Sylvia Westall reports: Purported supporters of the hardline Islamic State group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog on Wednesday and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria’s war. The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, took down its website…
MI: Sensitive documents stolen from Wexford County assessor’s cart
Allison Scott reports: The personal information of more than a dozen people in Cadillac are at risk after some Wexford County tax documents were stolen. Assessors had the files with them while they were going door-to-door taking measurements last month. That’s when they were taken. The director of the Wexford County Equalization Department said assessors have been…
Quinlan revisited: employees who steal personnel records may not necessarily be fired, but at least they may be prosecuted
Keith J. Rosenblatt and David K. Broderick of Littler Mendelson write: Five years ago, in Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a trusted employee’s act of stealing and using her employer’s confidential personnel documents in furtherance of her discrimination lawsuit constituted protected activity under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”).1 On…
UK online banking users hit with Dyre malware phishing attacks
Jason Murdock reports: Online banking customers in the UK are being warned of a major phishing campaign using a notorious piece of malware designed to steal financial data. Customers of Barclays, Santander and Lloyds TSB are being targeted by the trojan malware known as Dyre. Nearly 20,000 malicious emails have been sent in the last…
UK: Address mistake causes data breach
James Illingworth reports: An investigation has been launched after a Wigan resident was sent confidential tax documents due to a civil service mix-up. Barron Roberts raised the alarm after receiving the bundle containing a dozen forms with personal information relating to borough households through the post this week. Read more on Wigan Today. The Department for…