Matthew Kish reports: One of Oregon’s largest financial firms has warned clients of a possible data breach. Portland-based M Holdings Securities Inc., a subsidiary of M Financial Holdings Inc., has informed California’s attorney general of a stolen laptop with client information, including social security numbers. The theft occurred July 29 in Salem. […] O’Connor said the laptop…
Category: Business Sector
Law Firms Are “One-Stop Shopping” for Hackers, as Hickey Law Firm Found Out
Randy Evans and Shari Klevens write: This year has shown that law firms are not immune from infiltration by international hackers. This spring, a Russian hacker targeted 48 top law firms, seeking to obtain confidential insider information regarding mergers and acquisitions that would be very valuable and could impact global markets. […] These are not…
Details emerge on Fuzzy’s Taco Shop credit card breach
No, it wasn’t an employee with a skimmer. There’s an update to the Fuzzy’s Taco Shop breach involving customers’ credit card information. Andrew McMillan reports: KTXS spoke with Detective Gabriel Thompson with the APD Fraud Division Thursday, and he revealed more details about the two-month-long data breach that started in July and ended Sept. 1….
IN: McDonald’s employee stole about 100 credit card numbers while working drive-thru
Gabby Gonzalez reports: Newly unsealed court documents reveal how detectives were able to track down a McDonald’s employee who allegedly stole around 100 credit card numbers while working the drive-thru. Police say Makeisha Roberts, the McDonald’s employee, and Quentin Deshawn Creamer worked together to steal customers’ information and make fake credit cards they used to…
Seagate sued by its own staff for leaking personal info to identity thieves
Shaun Nichols reports on a lawsuit filed by Seagate employees whose W-2 information was given to criminals who successfully tricked an employee via business email compromise. The suit [PDF], originally filed in July through the Northern California District Court, accuses the hard drive maker of negligence and unfair business practices stemming from the March 1, 2016…
Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years
Brian Krebs reports: vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets. The vDOS database, obtained…