This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files. Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information from a Mercedes car dealership where he worked and where she brought her car for servicing. According to the plaintiff, the…
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Experian/Court Ventures/InfoSearch identity theft lawsuit remanded to state court
On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna sent a lawsuit against Experian, Court Ventures, and InfoSearch back to Orange County Superior Court, denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss outright. The case is Patton v. Experian, and I blogged about it when it was first filed last year. I’ve also blogged, in the past, about how outrageous it…
Teen Dating Site Left Underage Users’ Private Messages Exposed To Anyone
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The youth dating site OurTeenNetwork claims to be the “best rated teen dating and social networking site,” created “for the safety of online teen dating and socializing.” But despite those hefty claims and promises, until this week, anyone on the internet could read the private messages exchanged between users, and even impersonate them. All…
Update on Wendy’s breach
Wendy’s issued its first quarter report for 2016 this week, and a section of its press release on the report addresses its data breach: Update on investigation into unusual credit card activity As previously reported, the Company engaged cybersecurity experts earlier this year to conduct a comprehensive investigation into unusual credit card activity at some Wendy’s restaurants….
Military probe underway over alleged N. Korean hacking into navy vessel builder
Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s military counter-espionage service has opened an investigation into an alleged North Korean hacking attack on Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. a key builder of naval warships, officials said Tuesday. “After identifying signs that Hanjin Heavy Industries may have been hacked on April 20, the Defense Security Command is currently…
UserVoice Security Incident
As posted on their site yesterday: Please see our blog post from May 9, 2016 announcing a security incident at https://community.uservoice.com/blog/uservoice-security-incident-notification/ What Happened? In late April, the UserVoice security team learned that an unauthorized party illegally accessed one of UserVoice’s backend reporting systems and was able to view user data on a small subset of users….