Tamara Burns reports: Backblaze Inc., a company specializing in computer data backup and recovery, is the subject of a proposed class action lawsuit filed last Friday. The class action lawsuit alleges Backblaze puts private customer data at risk by shipping them unencrypted external storage drives. [….] Plaintiff Scott Hellervik takes issue with Backblaze’s procedures for…
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IL: Village Pizza & Pub notifies customers of data security breach at TransformPOS
I wonder how many other TransformPOS clients may be notifying customers. So far, I do not see any notice on TransformPOS’s web site about this incident. From Village Pizza & Pub’s press release: On July 27, 2015, Village Pizza & Pub learned that the company that provides its point-of-sale payment card processing system, TransformPOS, had been…
Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them dating ones
Jeremy Kirk reports: Russian-speaking hackers have breached 97 websites, mostly dating-related, and stolen login credentials, putting hundreds of thousands of users at risk. Many of the websites are niche dating ones similar to Ashley Madison, according to a list compiled by Hold Security, a Wisconsin-based company that specializes in analyzing data breaches. A few are job-related…
Cop’s suicide was NOT because of AshleyMadison data dump exposure
A San Antonio police officer whose suicide had been tentatively linked to exposure in the Ashley Madison data dump was not a member of Ashley Madison, according to both those who examined the data dumps and his widow. His name was listed as a member by a web site that is anti-police, Cop Block. The…
Ola Cabs Accidentally Reveals Hundreds of Customers’ Data – and Doesn’t Care? (update1)
Kunal Anand reports that a woman received hundreds of text messages with customer info and couldn’t get Ola Cabs to stop or to care: It turned out, Ola was sending me confirmation messages when other customers made a booking, in BANGALORE!…Hidden within the hashes I found mobile numbers, names and addresses….Ola was sharing with me,…
Data pirate stole $360K in real-estate records: lawsuit
Kathianne Boniello reports: Data pirates beware: A Manhattan real-estate company has you in its sights. Reis Services LLC, which runs a database of commercial properties in more than 7,000 neighborhoods across the country, wants a court to unmask the information thief who has been accessing its proprietary reports for free, according to a Manhattan federal…