Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud, prosecutors said. Edwin Smith, the 64-year-old owner of Menalto Cleaners, accepted a plea deal that dropped many of the 40 felony…
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Not our data, not our server – Amazon Kindle denies hacker’s claims
Jason Murdock reports: Online giant Amazon has hit back at claims that a hacker was able to steal over 80,000 user records belonging to Kindle users from one of its servers. On 8 July, a hacker using the pseudonym 0x2Taylor posted a link on Twitter to a data dump that appeared to consist of thousands…
Ukrainian Hacker Hacks Polish Telecom Giant Netia; Leaks Massive Data
Waqas writes: A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor has breached the servers of Poland’s telecom company Netia SA and stole a massive trove of data a couple of days ago and posted it for public access on an underground forum. Netia SA has acknowledged that netia.pl faced a cyber attack from the hackers but…
Omni Hotels & Resorts notifies guests of payment card breach
Update: It appears that more than 50,000 have been affected. Original post: From the notice posted on Omni Hotels & Resorts web site today: Notice of Data Breach Message to Our Valued Customers: Omni values the relationship we have with our guests and wants you to be aware of an incident that may involve your…
Hackers Allegedly Steal 1.4M Passwords From Mac Forums, Web Hosting Talk
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A hacker or hackers has allegedly stolen more than 1.4 million passwords, email addresses, and other data from the databases of popular forums including Web Hosting Talk, and Mac Forums and HotScripts. Someone who goes by the name “uid0” is offering to sell the three databases on the dark web underground market…
Insurance broker fined $1K for not following MPI privacy rules
Vera-Lynn Kubinec reports: A privacy breach involving customers’ auto insurance files has netted a Winnipeg insurance broker a $1,000 fine. Manitoba Public Insurance determined that last fall broker Basil Galarnyk accessed customer information 42 times without performing any transactions and with “no discernible reason” for accessing the files, a discipline panel has found. As a result, MPI…