K.C. Vijayan reports: The Cellar Door, a well-known local seller of gourmet products, has been fined $5,000 for failing to protect the personal data of some of its customers and users from being posted on another website without authorisation. Its website host, Global Interactive Works (GIW), was fined $3,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission…
Month: December 2016
KeepKey notifies customers of security incident, offers 30 BTC reward for tips leading to attacker’s arrest
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, has disclosed how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords. Here’s how KeepKey responded to the attack and the attacker: A Message from the Founder About Email Breach Our guiding principle at KeepKey is building open and transparent products for our most…
US government subcontractor leaks confidential military personnel data
Charlie Osborne reports: A Pentagon subcontractor has exposed reams of highly sensitive details belonging to active military healthcare professionals online, some of which hold top-secret security clearances. Potomac Healthcare Solutions, a subcontractor brought on board to supply healthcare professionals to the US government and military organizations through its Washington, DC.-based contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, was…
Topps’ payment card breach was just its latest data security incident
A number of sites have now reported on Topps‘ recent disclosure that on October 12, it became aware of unauthorized access to payment card information for customers using the topps.com website between July 30 and October 12. A copy of the sports card and memorabilia giant’s notification can be found on several state regulators’ sites but not, it seems…
Anonymous Just Hacked Bilderberg & Issued Ominous Threat — ‘Work for Humanity’ Or Lose It All
Matt Agorist writes: It’s one of the most secretive and powerful organizations you’ve probably never heard of; the Bilderberg Group. With virtually no mainstream corporate media coverage of the event, the ultra-exclusive events take place in the open as the world remains uninformed. In fact, many people still believe that the Bilderberg Group is a…
Veterans say mail from VAC outs medical marijuana users
Andrea Gunn reports yet another incident where Canadian medical marijuana users have been outed by a mailing gaffe. Veterans across Canada are reporting a security breach involving mail sent out by Veterans Affairs Canada that lets anyone looking at the outside of the envelope know it was issued under the federal medical marijuana program. Veteran…