Chinese search engine Baidu can proceed with negligence claims against its domain register following a hacking attack, a US judge has ruled. The claims arose from an attack in January on Register.com by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu alleges the hackers had contacted Register claiming to be Baidu employees and…
Category: Business Sector
NZ: Hell – The Right Approach to a Data Breach
BarneyC writes: There are any number of approaches to data breaches in business today. Whilst regulation is ever trying to get to the point where notification of breach is mandatory there are still plenty of businesses out there who will go to all sorts of lengths to sweep things under the carpet rather than own…
Se: Card-skimming devices found at H&M stores
Several H&M stores in Sweden have discovered so-called skimming devices on their card readers in Linköping, Täby, Löddeköpinge and Malmö. The stores have since made police reports. On Wednesday morning, staff discovered a skimming device on the card reader at one of the counters at the store in the Mobilia mall in Malmö. Anyone who…
Richmond tax preparer sentenced to 3 years, 3 months for ID theft, fraud
The Associated Press reports that a former employee at The Tax Complex has been sentenced to prison for using clients’ information to open credit accounts. Read more here.
Financial information leaked from local credit card transactions
Laura Ann Sills reports: A WTVM viewer tipped us off to a website that had personal data, including credit card information, about him, and 50 other people. The list was a Google cache with a list of 60 customers of The Loft and Comedy Club in downtown Columbus that purchased tickets at the club from…
Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web
Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…