BBC reports: Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research. The code has been injected into the sites by cyberthieves, said Dutch developer Willem De Groot. He found the 5,925 compromised sites by scanning for the specific signature of the data-stealing code in website…
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Vermont Attorney General Enters Unique Data Security Settlement With Software Developer
October 12, 2016 In a settlement announced today, software company Entrinsik agreed to provide better warnings after a Vermont college experienced a security breach that potentially exposed 14,000 social security numbers due to the ordinary use of its reporting tool. Because the Attorney General believes that the software practice involved is widespread and many companies may not…
Amazon Denies Data Breach Rumors but Resets User Passwords Just in Case
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The company says that nobody breached its servers, but that it took this step after its security staff discovered a set of customer details posted online as part of another breach at another company. Amazon says those details matched the details of Amazon accounts, and since it had no way of knowing…
Concentrix: Tax credits firm in ‘data protection breach’
Peter Whittlesea reports: A US firm used by the government to cut tax credit payments has suffered a data protection breach, it is claimed. Facebook campaign group Concentrix Mums believe around 100 claimants have been sent information such as bank statements, self assessment details and National Insurance numbers of others. A Concentrix spokesperson said: “We…
Alerted by law enforcement: Vera Bradley discloses payment card security breach
Vera Bradley, Inc. announced that it has taken action to investigate and address an incident affecting payment card data used at its retail stores. Payment cards used at Vera Bradley store locations between July 25, 2016 and September 23, 2016 may have been affected. Not all cards used in stores during this time frame were affected….
Modern Business Solutions’ leaky bucket provided a field day for downloaders
Update of Oct. 18: a vendor on the dark web has seemingly put the database up for sale for $200. The listing says: 58,848,308 ModBSolutions.com no passwords Business 2016-10 contains field “email”,”gender”,”zip,”state”,”city”,”address”,”last_name”,”first_name”,”updatedate”,”job” Note that MBS never responded to my courtesy notification, never responded to a request for a statement as to what they were doing in…