Khari Johnson reports: Major tech companies including Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Red Hat today announced intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium to improve security for data in use. Established by the Linux Foundation, the organization plans to bring together hardware vendors, developers, open source experts, and others to promote…
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Breach at Hy-Vee Supermarket Chain Tied to Sale of 5M+ Stolen Credit, Debit Cards
Brian Krebs reports: On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked merchants announced a blockbuster new sale: More than 5.3 million new accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states. Multiple sources now tell KrebsOnSecurity that the card data came from compromised…
MasterCard says it’s investigating a data breach of German loyalty program
Steve Goldstein reports: MasterCard MA, -0.44% said it was investigating a data breach of a loyalty program in Germany which led to a leak of personal information, The Wall Street Journal reported. The loyalty program has been shut down, and on Wednesday, the company became aware of another file with user data, the report said….
Hackers Target Denmark’s Tivoli Park, Steal Information of Up to 1,000 Guests
IANS reports: The Copenhagen-based Tivoli, one of the oldest and most popular amusement parks in Europe, has now joined the unfortunate online “rogues gallery” of major Danish companies whose customer data has been hacked from their websites. Details about the extent of the early August hack into the website of Denmark’s premier tourist destination were…
Cable One email data breach could affect employees, family members
Phoenix Business Journal reports: Cable One Inc. said Friday that a data breach earlier this year could have affected the personal information of some current and former employees, but also could have reached some of those employees’ family members. Read more on Phoenix Business Journal. Cable One’s press release appears below: PHOENIX, Aug. 16, 2019…
Companies Puzzled After Report Says Their Biometric Data Leaked
Bloomberg has an interesting follow-up on a headline-grabbing report from this week: Millions of pieces of personal data, including fingerprints, may have been leaked from a cloud-based service that stores biometric data for companies and organizations worldwide, security researchers said. Computer scientists working with software firm VpnMentor said they discovered a vulnerability in South Korean…