Bob Hansen reports: The Blockbuster store in Mission Valley was being cleaned out for the last time. The video store chain is in bankruptcy and one worker was finishing up at the store. That’s when privacy rights expert Beth Givens happened to walk by and she was shocked by what she found. “A box called…
Category: Business Sector
Two suspects in Hyundai Capital hacking caught
Kim Tae-jong reports the latest in a breach involving Hyundai Capital reported previously on this blog: Police arrested two suspects Monday on charges of hacking Hyundai Capital’s database and blackmailing the company by threatening to release confidential customer financial information. A 40-year-old man, surnamed Huh, is thought to be the key figure who facilitated the…
Pryor Urges FTC to Investigate Data Breach that Exposes Millions of Consumers
U.S. Senator Mark Pryor has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the Chairman to investigate the recent data breach of Epsilon, an online marketing firm that handles email lists for companies such as Target, Best Buy, Walgreens, and Citi Group. Pryor said the information that was stolen is likely limited to e-mail…
IN: Credit card scam hits local eatery
A restaurant in Richmond, Indiana seems to have fallen for a ruse that has resulted in fraudulent charges on their customers’ credit and debit cards. Robert Sullivan reports: A local restaurant and several of its customers have been victimized by a credit card fraud scam, Richmond Police Department officials said. Fifteen individuals who ate at…
WordPress Hack Puts Government and Commercial Clients at Risk
Jessica Herrera-Flanigan reports: Continuing the trend in recent weeks of high-profile sites being attacked, the open source blog program WordPress announced that it was hacked on Wednesday and the hackers potentially made off with “anything.” In a note posted on the WordPress webblog, founder Matt Mullenweg stated “Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a…
Sens. Franken, Blumenthal Ask Justice Department to Clarify, Enforce Data Privacy Law
Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to clarify its interpretation of a critical federal law that protects the private and personal data of Americans. Recently, servers owned by Epsilon Data Management were hacked, exposing the names and e-mail addresses of millions of American consumers….