Matthew Braga reports: The Office of Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has declined to name 11 Canadian websites found to be leaking personal information to third parties without the knowledge of users, but revealed in a blog post that privacy practices had improved after being notified of the government’s concerns. A study found that user names, email…
Category: Business Sector
Australian customers’ private phone calls online
Ben Grubb reports: “This call may be recorded for training and quality purposes.” And perhaps inadvertently uploaded to the internet if you’re a customer of a certain Australian telco. Recorded voice contracts containing personally identifiable information between telco IF Telecom and its customers have been found online by an Australian security expert while performing a…
Wyndham Vacation Resorts reports an insider breach
As if Wyndham didn’t have enough problems from a number of breaches it experienced a few years ago, it seems that they may have had an insider breach, too. In a report to the Maryland Attorney General dated March 12, Stratis Pridgeon, Group Vice President of Legal Services for Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. (which includes…
Raley’s warns customers after network attacked
Katie Nelson reports: The Raley’s supermarket chain warned customers Thursday that part of the company’s computer network may have been targeted in a cyber attack. The company stated in a news release that it could not confirm if any unauthorized access had been made to payment card data, but that an internal investigation remains ongoing….
Hetzner Security Breach Exposes Customer Passwords, Payment Information
Nicole Henderson reports: German web hosting provider Hetzner Online AG discovered a backdoor on on its Nagios monitoring servers last week, and emailed customers on Thursday to let them know that password hashes and payment information was compromised. According to a report by H-Online, founder Martin Hetzner says it’s not clear at this time how many customers have been…
Novato’s Academy Studios closes doors; sensitive employee records found in waste container
Richard Halstead reports: Academy Studios of Novato, which built exhibits for some of the top museums in the world, closed in April after more than 23 years in business. In a related development, an auction house scrambled to gather the company’s paperwork last week after reports that personnel records containing sensitive information on former Academy…