Trevor Jones reports: Ward’s Nursery & Garden Center may be one of the businesses at the center of a security breach resulting in fraudulent purchases this month made with dozens of locals’ credit and debit cards. Gregory Ward, co-owner of the South Main Street store, said his company was contacted by a bank regarding the…
Category: Business Sector
Veterans’ personal information accidentally posted on Ancestry.com
Leo Shane III reports: More than 2,200 veterans had their personal information accidentally posted on the genealogy website Ancestry.com last year, a move that could potentially expose them to identify theft crimes. Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs said all of the veterans affected by the mistake will receive free credit monitoring services to…
DreamHost forces Shell/FTP password reset following “security issue”
From DreamHost’s status blog: Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution. Please login to our web panel and change any passwords you may have with us. We’ll keep this post…
OK: Piedmont woman linked to ID theft investigation
Tim Willert reports: Secret Service agents and police investigating identity theft have uncovered more than 300 potential victims — nearly half of whom did business with a company in Bethany where a suspect worked. Between February and December, members of the Oklahoma City Economic and Identity Crimes Task Force seized dozens of stolen identification cards,…
Zappos hacked; notifying 24+ million Zappos.com and 6pm.com customers of breach and to reset passwords
Online retailer Zappos has been hacked. Its CEO, Tony Hsieh, posted a copy of an email notification explaining the breach to all employees with a copy of the email notification sent to customers: The following email was sent to our employees today: Subject: Important – Security Dear Zappos Employees – Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully…
CoveritLive Warns Users of Possible Security Breach
While it isn’t indicated on its official site, the CoveritLive service has apparently been hacked and some personal user data may have been compromised, according to an email sent to subscribers this evening. The Live blogging technology is used by plenty of journalists, bloggers, and web sites as an easy way to blog live events….