Bradley J. Freedman of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP writes about the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Walmart and PNI Digital Media. DataBreaches.net had covered the breach involving both U.S. and Canadian photo centers at the time of the breach. Canadian class action lawsuits over the Walmart Canada Photo Centre data breach were settled…
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A smart fish tank left a casino vulnerable to hackers
Selena Larson reports: Hackers attempted to steal data from a North American casino through a fish tank connected to the internet, according to a report from security firm Darktrace. Despite extra security precautions set up on the fish tank, hackers still managed to compromise the tank to send data to a device in Finland before…
TNT Express warns of permanent data loss from WannaCry and NotPetya malware outbreaks
Graeme Burton reports: Courier company TNT Express has warned that it is still being affected by the NotPetya malware almost a month after it struck, and “cannot estimate when TNT services will be fully restored”, according to a statement released by the company this week. Furthermore, the company added that it may not be able to…
Lucchese computer hacker sentenced to 18-months in federal prison
Andra Litton has the follow-up to a case previously noted on this site: A disgruntled ex-employee of Lucchese Boots was sentenced to 18-months in federal prison and ordered to pay $57,396.76 in restitution Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer. The computer breach happened…
Ca: Loblaws suffers another online security breach
Patrick O’Rourke reports: According to an email sent out to Loblaws account holders, the security of a ‘small number’ of accounts has been compromised, marking the second time the company has suffered a security breach this year. The last time Loblaws’ websites suffered a breach, the company reset all subscriber passwords, though in that case…
Dow Jones Data Leak Results from Amazon AWS Configuration Error
Kelly Sheridan reports: A data leak at Dow Jones & Co. exposed the personal information of millions of customers after a public cloud configuration error. This marks the fifth major public cloud leak in the past several months after similar incidents affected Verizon, the WWE, US voter records, and Scottrade. This mistake compromised millions of…