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….
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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…
Hy-Vee Announces Payment Card Breach
August 14 – Hy-Vee takes the security of payment card data very seriously. We want to make customers aware of an investigation we are conducting into a security incident involving our payment processing systems that is focused on transactions at some Hy-Vee fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops, and restaurants, as well as to provide information…
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms
Josh Taylor reports: The fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well as facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and personal information of employees, was discovered on a publicly accessible database for a company used by the likes of the UK Metropolitan police, defence contractors and banks. Suprema is the security company responsible for…