It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a breach does sound a death knell for a firm. Cat Rutter Pooley and Barney Thompson report: Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, will close at the end of March, according to a statement from the firm obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative…
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Svitzer employee details stolen in data breach affecting almost half of its Australian employees
Ariel Bogle reports: The shipping company Svitzer has suffered a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees. It is among the first incidents to be disclosed under Australia’s new notifiable data breaches scheme. For almost 11 months, emails from three Australian employee email accounts were secretly auto-forwarded outside the company. The perpetrator has…
Walmart jewelry partner exposed 1.3 million customer details
Bob Diachenko writes: On February 6th, 2018 researchers at Kromtech security came across another publicly accessible Amazon s3 bucket. This one contained a MSSQL database backup, which was found to hold the personal information, including names, addresses, zip codes, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, ip addresses, and, most shockingly, plain text passwords, for shopping accounts of over…
MO: Olathe restaurant owner accused of identity theft
KSHB in Kansas City reports: An Olathe barbecue restaurant owner is facing accusations of credit card fraud. Mathew Sander is facing 19 different charges in three separate cases. Sander owns Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. Read more on KSHB.
Yahoo Enters $80 Million Securities Class Action Settlement After Data Breach
J. Robert MacAneney of Carlton Fields writes: On March 5, Yahoo, Inc. (“Yahoo”) announced a proposed settlement in In re Yahoo Inc. Securities Litigation, which was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The $80 million proposed settlement relates to a securities class litigation stemming from Yahoo’s 2013 and 2014 data breaches. While many…
Used Tesco for your travel cash in the past? Your personal details may have been hit by a data leak at its provider Travelex
Lee Boyce reports: Travellers who have bought currency at Tesco in the past may have had their details leaked, This is Money can exclusively reveal. The service is run by currency giant Travelex for orders made over the telephone and online. It confirmed 17,000 Tesco Travel Money customers have had personal information stolen, including full…