Reuters reports: Investment research firm Morningstar Inc said personal information, including credit card details, of about 2,300 users of its Morningstar Document Research service may have been compromised due to a security breach last year. The incident on April 3, 2012 may also have led to the leakage of names, addresses, email addresses and passwords,…
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Appeals Court Sends Fiserv Data Breach Case Back to Trial
Robert McGarvey reports that a credit union’s lawsuit against Fiserv has been resurrected by a Tennessee court: The Court of Appeals in Tennessee, in a ruling filed July 3, ruled that a lower court erred when it dismissed a suit filed by Copper Basin Federal Credit Union and CUMIS against Fiserv Inc., wherein the plaintiffs…
Quayside Publishing notifies online customers of breach
Customers who ordered from one of Quayside Publishing‘s web sites since the end of April recently received a notice of a breach that was reported to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office: We are writing to notify you of an incident that involved unauthorized access to our web server in which your personal information, including your…
Nintendo rewards program site hacked, names, email addresses and phone numbers possibly compromised
Nick Summers reports: Nintendo admitted today that Club Nintendo, a loyalty program that gives players exclusive products in exchange for registering their consoles and games, has been hacked. The company launched an investigation on July 2 after witnessing a “large” number of errors on the site. Nintendo can now confirm that 23,9326 unauthorized log-ins occurred between June…
MAPCO Express sued over data breach
Another potential class-action lawsuit has been filed in response to the MAPCO Express breach, reported previously on this blog. The suit also names the convenience chain’s parent company, Delek U.S. Holdings Inc., as defendants. Read more on Tuscaloosa News. The complaint by Ian Yeager was filed on June 17, and an amended complaint (uploaded here)…
Vendini breach update
As I’ve noted before, the Vendini breach, reported previously on this blog, appears to fairly large, but has generally flown under national mainstream media attention. Instead, I see bits and pieces in local media or on organizations’ web sites as entities report that their patrons or members were affected (cf, reports involving Purple Rose Theatre,…