It’s worrying that once again, criminals are successfully tricking employees into emailing employees’ W-2 data to them. But how about when a company just mails out W-2’s to the wrong address – and not once, but twice? The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Paychex, a payroll service, has twice shipped scores of confidential salary records and other documents to…
Category: Business Sector
Telemarketing Company Leaks Nearly 400K Consumer Files
MacKeeper’s Security Research Center reports: Researchers from the MacKeeper Security Research Center have made one of the biggest discoveries to date with several hundred thousand files publically available. The files belong to a controversial Florida based marketing company VICI Marketing LLC and include thousands of audio recordings where customers give their names, addresses, phone number,…
Investors Sue Yahoo Over Post-Hack Stock Plunge
I don’t think investors’ lawsuits related to data breaches have been a particularly winning strategy to date, but if any investors’ suit has a chance, this one might – or at least, should have a chance. Maria Dinzeo reports that those who invested in Yahoo! are suing the company: A proposed class of hundreds of thousands…
NYS A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Acer After Data Breach Exposed More Than 35,000 Credit Card Numbers
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Acer Service Corporation (“Acer”), a computer manufacturer based in Taiwan, after a data breach of its website exposed over 35,000 credit card numbers. An investigation by the A.G.’s office revealed that sensitive Acer customer information was not protected by Acer for almost…
Delhi hackers, digital shoplifters who tampered data of e-commerce portals
Shiv Sunny reports: Four young hackers have been arrested for allegedly digitally shoplifting vouchers worth Rs92 lakh [$134,985.29 USD] by tampering with the data of e-commerce websites at the payment gateway stage. Two of them are BTech dropouts, one is pursuing engineering while the other is a BCA from Delhi University, police said. Calling it…
Ca: Grey Eagle Resort & Casino hacked; hackers threaten to dump sensitive employee and customer info
From the this-looks-like-it-is-going-to-get-ugly-really-quickly dept.: There was a somewhat ominous message posted on Pastebin on January 24: Grey Eagle Resort and Casino has been hacked hundreds of gigabytes of data has been stolen and will be released in several data dumps data includes customer gambling habits and gambling debt customer information names, DOB, phone numbers, Email, SIN…