A money bag containing thousands of dollars in cash, checks and credit card transactions was stolen during a burglary at All Star Lanes late Sunday or early Monday. Source: Salina Journal
Author: Dissent
New TD Ameritrade data theft settlement offers $50-$2,500 for ID theft in breach
Associated Press reports: Online brokerage TD Ameritrade (Nasdaq:AMTD) will offer up to $2,500 to each of the more than six million current and former customers affected by the theft of their contact information more than three years ago. But the proposed settlement, which will cost between $2.5 million and $6.5 million, still must be approved…
Chili’s Says Club Members’ Personal Data Was Leaked
Phil Villarreal writes: In a mass message sent out to its “e-mail club” subscribers, Chili’s revealed its service provider sprung a leak in user data, letting loyalists know first and last names, email addresses and birthdates went up for grabs. […] We are contacting you because the service provider (InterMundo Media) for the Chili’s e-mail…
Hard Drive Containing Students’ Personal Info Goes Missing at Messiah College
From WGAL: A computer hard drive containing personal information about tens of thousands of current, former and prospective Messiah College students disappeared about two weeks ago, a representative of the small private college said Monday. The external hard drive — which backed up information on a laptop in the financial aid department — contained data…
‘Fingerprint’ software to stem cyber crime
Revolutionary digital fingerprinting software invented by Edinburgh computer scientists could be set to stem the growing tide of cyber crime. The technology, developed at Edinburgh Napier University, allows CCTV-style monitoring of online systems. It digitally mimics the DNA matching process used in the real world. The software, which will be on sale in six months,…
Monadnock Community Bank notifies customers of third party breach
Monadnock Community Bank, who reported a somewhat strange situation to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office in September, filed another breach report this month. According to its letter dated November 9, MCB’s card processor notified it that an unnamed third party payment service provider’s network had a data breach involving customer information, including debit card…