After a few years of headlines blaring mega-numbers of records exposed by misconfigured RSYNC backups, we might hope that we would be seeing fewer errors by now. But it seems that RSYNC errors continue at a high rate, exposing massive amounts of data. This month, part of what I did was look at RSYNC errors…
Category: Business Sector
Ticketmaster data breach victims make bid for Swift justice
Pavel Barter reports: Several legal cases have been filed in the Irish courts against Ticketmaster Ireland, following a 2018 data breach in which the personal and payment information of customers may have been stolen. On June 27, 2018, Ticketmaster sent an email to customers “who purchased, or attempted to purchase, tickets between February and June…
Alectra confirms no data breach as originally reported by the City of Hamilton
Don Mitchell reports: Alectra Utilities says an investigation has turned up “no breach of customer information” as originally reported by the City of Hamilton in a statement released on Wednesday. In the release, the city said its water-related services, including meter reading, billing, payment, collections, and customer care services, managed by Alectra Utilities, may have…
Love, Bonito apologises to customers after personal data breach
CNA reports: SINGAPORE: Some Love, Bonito customers may have had their personal data leaked after a “malicious code” was found on the retailer’s e-commerce website. In an e-mail sent out to customers on Friday (Dec 13) and seen by CNA, the retailer said the code was added to its website on Tuesday. Read more on Channel…
AG Josh Shapiro reaches settlement with Expedia and Orbitz in 2018 data breach
Valeria de Leon reports: Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Friday, he reached a settlement with two online travel reservation companies after they potentially exposed information of thousands of people, including Pennsylvanians. The settlement follows an investigation led by Deputy Attorney General Timothy R. Murphy, into a data breach in 2018 involving Orbitz and its…
Thief Stole Payroll Data for Thousands of Facebook Employees
Kurt Wagner reports: Personal banking information for tens of thousands of Facebook Inc. workers in the U.S. was compromised last month when a thief stole several corporate hard drives from an employee’s car. The hard drives, which were unencrypted, included payroll data like employee names, bank account numbers and the last four digits of employees’ social security…