Tatiana Siegel reports that there have been “at least a half-dozen extortion attempts against Hollywood firms over the past six months alone, say sources in the cybersecurity industry.” And things are so bad, it seems, that: The frequency of the attacks has overwhelmed the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, which has been unable to properly…
Category: Business Sector
Brooks Brothers payment card system compromised for almost one year; customers being alerted
Oh my. It seems that upscale Brooks Brothers had a payment card compromise that went on for almost one year at hundreds of their brick-and-mortar retail and outlet locations. Brooks Brothers recently became aware of a security incident that could affect the payment card information of some customers who made purchases at certain Brooks Brothers…
Chinese Hackers Must Pay $8.9 Million for Law Firm Data Theft
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Bob Van Voris reports: Three Chinese hackers who traded on data they stole from two top New York law firms were ordered by a judge to pay $8.9 million. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan on May 5 fined the men and ordered…
Some 2016 phishing incidents are still first being detected
Here’s another case where a 2016 phishing incident wasn’t detected until 2017: Ice Miller LLP represents Equian, LLC and its subsidiaries, including Nurse Audit, LLC (“collectively referred to herein as “Equian”). We are writing to notify you of a security incident involving the personal information of one (1) New Hampshire resident. On or about March…
Company Awarded Damages After Former Employee Hacks Its Systems and Hijacks Its Website
Michael Bertoncini writes: A company can recover damages from its former employee in connection with his hacking into its payroll system to inflate his pay, accessing its proprietary files without authorization and hijacking its website, a federal court ruled. Tyan, Inc. v. Yovan Garcia, Case No. CV 15-05443- MWF (JPRx) (C.D. Cali. May 2, 2017). The…
Funding Circle Error Exposes 6,000 SSNs Of American Clients
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports that Kromtech Security Research Center has been pretty busy this week: An upcoming London-based business loans provider, Funding Circle, left a database containing 6,000 social security numbers of American clients exposed to anyone on the internet, it emerged Wednesday. The company, which has helped companies bypass banks to borrow more than $1.5…