Mark Jackson reports: A security flaw in the third-party service that Virgin Media uses to process new job applications could have exposed the personal CV details of between 30,000 and 50,000 people to the Internet. A student called Alikhan Uzakov discovered the problem while filling out an application form for the operator (like this one). At this point he…
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Owners of Rosslyn coffee shop charged with credit card fraud
Michelle Basch reports: Customers of Caffe Aficionado in Rosslyn are being told to check their credit card statements after the coffee shop was closed down and the owners were arrested and charged with credit card fraud. Adiam Berhane and Clark Donat, both 44 years old and from Arlington, were arrested Friday morning. They’re charged with…
District court tosses all 13 counts in breach lawsuit against Schnuck Markets
Tara Mapes reports: A District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has tossed all 13 counts in data breach case against a grocery store, noting the plaintiffs were too general in their allegations. The Community Bank of Trenton, University of Illinois Employees Credit Union, First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana, and Southpointe Credit Union…
Nets data breach puts 100,000 cards at risk
Alex Hamilton reports: Danish payments processor Nets has been hit by a data breach that could have left up to 100,000 credit cards at risk of fraud. The firm, which was floated last month, has linked the breach to a third-party internet retailer based overseas. The processor has notified local banks and suggested they begin…
Help Us Tell Telly That They Have Exposed 8M Subscribers!
RBS writes: We need your help to contact an organization that has thus far been unresponsive to numerous notifications that we have sent about a discovered data breach! Read on to understand the issue and see how you can help! We know that we have become a bit of a broken record when it comes to…
IES users’ data leaked due to ‘inadequate’ security measures: PDPC
Kelly Ng reports: The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) could have “easily detected” and patched security flaws on its website, which had resulted in more than 6,000 users’ personal data being comprised in a data leak in October 2014, said the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) in findings on the incident that it released publicly…