Dave Jordan reports: A number of customers who used their credit and debit card information at one store in the east may want to check their statements after an apparent breach in the system sent credit card information to an unknown location. One of those alleged victims–Kate Ford–says she used her debit card to buy…
Author: Dissent
Hackers didn’t retrieve data in Defense pharmacy website attack
Bob Brewin follows up a government site that appeared on a hacker’s list of compromised sites for sale: No data has been siphoned off the Defense Department PharmacoEconomic Center website and domain as the result of a hacker attack reported by a security firm last week, a Military Health System spokesman said. Austin Camacho, a spokesman…
2011: The Year of Epic Hacking
Darlene Storm has an interesting recap of some breaches in the first month of 2011 that includes a breach this blog didn’t even know about. Specifically: In India, Domino’s Pizza database of online ordering customers was hacked. It sent a letter to customers, alerting them of the breach, yet the company sort of blew it off…
Losing Data Must Be Easier Than Misplacing a Piano
Bart Porter writes: Days ago, before the tale of a mysterious piano that appeared on a secluded sandbar in Miami’s Biscayne Bay went viral and everyone from condo residents to the U.S. Coast Guard were questioning where it came from, I had a similar question in mind: How does somebody lose a grand piano? Grand…
NZ: City doctor who breached confidentiality cleared of privacy breach
Here’s the latest news report by Sam McKnight on a case previously covered on this blog: Invercargill doctor Robert Henderson has been cleared of breaching a careworker’s privacy when he disclosed her personal information to her employer. Dr Henderson appeared before the Human Rights Review Tribunal last year to defend claims that in 2003 he…
Hacker may have sold access to Marshall U. website
Yesterday, I noted that I had contacted Marshall University about a hacker offering “Full SiteAdmin Control” to their server for $99.00. My purpose in contacting them was two-fold: to alert them to a possible breach that they needed to look into and to ask for a comment or response. I never got to the second…