Duan Ting reports: More than 20 DBS current and previous employees including directors in the direct sales team have been arrested over leaks of customers’ personal information to third parties for loan promotions. The arrests come after the case was investigated by the city’s graft-buster. According to the local media, customers’ private information was leaked…
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Chicago Law Firm Accused of Lax Data Security in Lawsuit
Gabe Friedman reports: A federal judge on Friday unveiled a long sealed proposed class-action complaint that accused the law firm, Johnson & Bell, of failing to take adequate steps to protect the data on its servers. The case is currently proceeding in confidential arbitration and the complaint was filed in April by the plaintiff’s firm Edelson P.C. on behalf…
UK: KFC warns 1.2 million Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme members of data breach after website hacked
Richard Wheatstone reports: KFC has warned 1.2 million customers in its Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme that their data may have been breached in a hacking attack. The fast food giant e-mailed customers this afternoon advising them to change their passwords and take precautions over other online accounts. Read more on The Mirror.
Busted By U.S. Secret Service Agents, Little Saigon ID Thief Gets Punished
R. Scott Moxley reports: A brazen Orange County identity theft ring that stole more than $400,000 from two Vons grocery stores in 2015 before a U.S. Secret Service investigation resulted this week in a 75-month federal prison punishment for one of the conspirators. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter allowed both federal prosecutors and 26-year-old…
Japanese hosting company Kagoya hacked; credit card data stolen
Waqas reports: Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan has suffered a security breach in which personal and financial data of its customers has been stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya stated that the hack attack was discovered this month after an in-house screening which revealed that customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015,…
NM: Charges dropped in insider hacking allegations case
Antonio Sanchez reports an update to a case previously noted on this blog one year ago: All charges against a former employee of a Rio Rancho internet service company, including embezzlement and extortion, were dismissed this fall due to a lack of evidence, according to court documents. The 13th Judicial District Attorney’s Office dropped the…