C’mon, CNN – this is not Sony’s second breach. Keep up, folks. More details on the latest Sony breach, mentioned yesterday on this blog. Per Nyberg reports: Sony on Tuesday reported another security breach, saying 8,500 user accounts had been compromised. The company said that Sony Music Entertainment Greece learned about the data breach late…
Category: Business Sector
Michaels Breach: Who’s Liable?
Tracy Kitten reports: …. What role should merchants play, when it comes to ensuring transactional security, and how should financial institutions, as card-issuers, fall into the fray? Attorney Randy Sabett, partner and co-chair of the Internet and Data Protection practice at law firm SNR Denton LLP, says the liability lines are often blurred and hard to…
Sony BMG Greece hacked
Add to that scorecard. John Leyden reports: Sony BMG Greece has became the latest property of the entertainment giant to be hacked. The miscreants attacked over the weekend. Hackers News Network uploaded sample extracts from a database of users’ names and email addresses onto pastebin after hackers who broke into SonyMusic.gr sent them a dump…
Information and Privacy Commissioner issues his decisions about the Epsilon data breach that affected Best Buy and Air Miles
From the press release: The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, Frank Work issued his decisions today in regard to Best Buy Canada Ltd., and Air Miles Reward Program’s breach incident reports involving unauthorized access to personal information. Amendments to the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) require organizations to report incidents where there exists a…
Hackers hit Sony sites raising more security issues
It’s getting so that I need a scorecard to keep track of all of the recent Sony breaches. These would appear to be #’s 3 and 4…. Reuters reports: Sony Corp has been hacked again, exposing more security issues for the company less than a month after intruders stole personal information from more than 100…
FL: Two Sentenced in ID Theft and Credit Card Scheme Involving Flanigan’s Customers
Jose Cruz, 28, and Lisandra Cruz, 19, both of Hialeah, Florida were sentenced yesterday in federal court to 75 months and 48 months in prison, respectively. A co-defendant, Yuremys Marchante, 30, also of Hialeah, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on April 19, 2011. All three defendants were convicted at trial on charges of…