Following up on a case previously noted on this blog…. Nishikant Karlikar reports: The anticipatory bail plea filed by five former top executives of Naaptol, a home shopping firm, was rejected by the district sessions court recently. The five were booked by the Navi Mumbai police for allegedly stealing and selling the company’s data to…
Category: Business Sector
Hackers Held Data on 5,000 Canadians Hostage and the Government Didn’t Tell Anyone
Justin Ling reports: Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process. It was another Cryptowall case, but the foreign company was not named, and those Canadians whose passport applications were caught up in the incident…
UK: Crash details sold by Aviva manager to cold callers
As I’ve reported in the past, Aviva has had a few data breaches involving insiders improperly accessing and then selling customer data. A rogue employee involved in such conduct back in 2012 and 2013 is now in court. Sean Poulter reports: A court was told yesterday how Matthew Cooper, 28, abused his position as a manager in…
UK: JD Wetherspoons discloses breach impacting 656,723 customers
Andrew Griffin reports: Wetherspoon’s has been hacked, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of its customers’ information at risk. The pub company said that 650,000 people might have had their personal details leaked, and that the card details of 100 people had been compromised. […] The stolen personal details of the 650,000 people includes the customer’s…
The Barbados Advocate defaced by “Muslim Electronic Army”
Nation News reports that The Barbados Advocate’s web site was defaced. Visitors to the site were reportedly greeted with a pop-up message from the “Muslim Electronic Army.” Then in a profanity-laced note, the hackers urged the newspaper to secure the site while singling out the police and government. They said the next target would be www.gov.bb, government’s…
Kalahari Resorts in Wisconsin and Ohio hit by payment card breach
From their notice of December 1 (and no, this isn’t related to the Starwood properties’ breach disclosed recently): Kalahari Resorts recently became aware of a possible security incident involving credit and debit card data reportedly used at our food & beverage, retail and spa outlets at our Wisconsin (1305 Kalahari Dr., Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965)…