STV provides an update to a previously noted breach. A Tesco worker stole customers’ personal details from the supermarket giant’s database. Thomas Wengierow admitted a charge under the Data Protection Act committed when he worked at the Tesco Customer Services call centre in Baird Avenue, Dundee. Read more on STV.
Category: Business Sector
AU: CompTIA apologizes after email privacy blunder
Tony Yoo reports: Industry group CompTIA has apologised for exposing the contact details of at least a thousand Australian members this month. CRN has sighted from multiple sources mass emails sent on the morning of 11 April to CompTIA’s Australia mailing list that expose the email addresses of all the recipients. The sender, new CompTIA…
EPIC Defends Right of PayTime Data Breach Victims to Bring Suit
EPIC.org is joining those who believe that victims of the PayTime data breach should not have had their lawsuit dismissed for lack of standing. EPIC has filed an amicus urging a federal appeals court to overturn a decision that limits the ability of data breach victims to sue. The plaintiffs sued a payroll company after their Social Security Numbers and…
My realtor’s email was hacked and I’m out $2M: exec’s suit
This is like the third case I can recall like this. Julia Marsh reports: A former Lehman Brothers executive unwittingly wired a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan apartment to cyber criminals — and now he’s blaming his real estate attorney and her vulnerable AOL email address for the breach. Robert Millard, who…
Yahoo’s FX broker YJFX updates on data breach incident
Maria Nikolova reports a follow-up to a previously reported incident involving YJFX: The analysis has shown that 185,626 pieces of information were taken out. 128,220 pieces of information were in a status in which public browsing was possible, but were not accessed. 56,665 pieces of information were accessed through search engine crawlers. 741 pieces of…
The Individual Who Hacked Hacking Team Explains How
We live in confusing times when those whom society brands as “criminals” are more ethical than their victims. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes: Back in July of last year, the controversial government spying and hacking tool seller Hacking Team was hacked itself by an outside attacker. The breach made headlines worldwide, but no one knew much about the perpetrator or…