This incident keeps growing and growing….. Joe Belanger reports: Police now confirm there are “hundreds” of victims in a debit card scam in Stratford. Although police said every financial institution was hit, they’ve confirmed there were more than 350 victims at just two banks. “We’re just starting to extrapolate the data, but it’s obviously in…
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Pointer: SQL Server Database Hack Tricks Forensics
OK, because I’m not a security professional but a privacy advocate, I generally do not post just “straight security” news items, but this one really touches on an issue that keeps coming up. How many times have we been told that some unnamed or named forensics service examined a recovered laptop or a hacked database…
Former Countrywide clients to get reimbursement
AP is reporting: Connecticut officials say the new owners of Countrywide Financial Corp. have agreed to pay the state $350,000 and reimburse customers who had to freeze their credit after a massive data breach. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell says about 30,000 people in Connecticut were affected. Read…
Heartland Sniffer Hid In Unallocated Portion Of Disk
Evan Schuman of StorefrontBacktalk reports: The sniffer malware that surreptitiously siphoned tons of payment card data from card processor Heartland Payment Systems hid in an unallocated portion of a server’s disk. The malware, which was ultimately detected courtesy of a trail of temp files, was hidden so well that it eluded two different teams of…
MA: CityStage eyes credit card breach
Jack Flynn reports: A security breach involving CityStage’s computer system might have exposed credit card information of 60 customers on the Internet, theater officials acknowledged Tuesday. Cynthia J. Anzalotti, president of the Springfield Performing Arts Development Corp., which oversees CityStage, said the breach was limited to customers purchasing holiday gift cards, and not patrons buying…
KR: GS Caltex cleared in data theft case
Follow-up to an incident originally covered on PogoWasRight.org: Prosecutors have cleared energy provider GS Caltex, two of its information managers and affiliate GS Nextation of allegations that they failed in their duty to protect personal information of more than 11 million customers. Five employees of GS Nextation, an insurance affiliate of GS Caltex, were prosecuted…