An update on the TerraCom breach reported previously on this blog. Brandon Smith reports: The Attorney General’s office updated lawmakers Monday on a nearly five-month long investigation of telecommunications company TerraCom Incorporated. […] Tolliver says a lot of the information the state has obtained has come from the media outlet that first uncovered the breach…
Category: Business Sector
Identity theft fears as a faulty laptop is resold on eBay
Another reminder of how much personal info winds up for sale on eBay – in this case, a defective laptop returned to the merchant who returned it to the manufacturer… A London film maker has found that a faulty Acer laptop he returned to Sainsbury’s was sold via eBay to an American buyer – who…
Vendini’s insurer says they’re not liable
Law360.com reports that St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company wants a court to rule it’s not responsible for $7 million in liability coverage in a class action lawsuit brought against online ticket broker Vendini. Subscription required to read the article. Coverage of the Vendini hack can be found in these posts.
Piles of private documents found dumped in public bins
Robert Maxwell reports: Thousands of private financial documents were discovered sitting in a wide open community recycling dumpster on Thursday. KXAN received a ReportIt tip late Thursday morning that the dumpster was full of personal documents from a local home builder. We discovered home loans, copies of personal checks, purchase orders and site plans all on display…
ICG America notifies customers of its companies of payment system compromise (update 2)
ICG America, which operates a family of retail and e-commerce companies that includes Amazing Clubs, Flying Noodle, MonsterBrew, Games2U, TexasIrons, and California Reds, has joined the ranks of those disclosing hacks involving customer data. In August, ICG America was alerted by a credit card company that their payment processing system appeared to have been attacked….
Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service
Brian Krebs has a must-read investigative piece about how ssndob.ms – an underground marketplace selling oodles of usable personal information (some of which we saw earlier this year on exposed.su) – gained access to major U.S. consumer and business data aggregators to obtain some of the data they were selling. LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, Kroll…