Jeff Quackenbush has a piece in Business Journal. I’m not sure where he got his figures from, but he reports: A recent theft of personal and financial records on about a quarter-million winery customers via a data breach at a Calistoga-based direct-to-consumer sales and marketing software company is raising questions about common winery approaches to…
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Adobe Settles Claims for Massive Data Breach
Jonny Bonner reports: Adobe is on the hook for $1.1 million in legal fees – and an undisclosed sum to users – amid class allegations that its “shoddy security protocols” led to a massive data breach. Hackers stole credit card and login data from 38 million people in October 2013 because of Adobe’s lax practices,…
Lee’s Deli: breach of payment card system at two locations
As submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, this notice from Sterling M Enterprises (dba Lee’s Deli): We recently learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on computer systems used to process credit card transactions at our Lee’s Deli locations at 75 Battery Street in San Francisco, CA and 4200 Bohannon Drive in Menlo Park,…
Ca: Privacy breach class-action suit filed against Kiewit
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site. The Telegram reports: St. John’s lawyer Bob Buckingham has filed a class-action lawsuit against Kiewit Energy for a privacy breach which happened earlier this year. According to the statement of claim and an accompanying news release, a laptop containing personal payroll information for Kiewit…
Update: SterlingBackcheck breach impacted 100,000
On August 4, this site reported a stolen laptop containing background checks. The laptop belonged to SterlingBackcheck, and was stolen from an employee’s car. More details on the numbers are starting to emerge. Today, we learned that the firm updated its report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s to indicate that 734 New Hampshire residents…
Marketwired, PR Newswire, Business Wire hacked in $US100m trading scam
AFP reports: An international team of computer hackers and stock traders was charged with pocketing more than $US100 million ($A138 million) in illicit profits based on stolen market-moving financial information, US officials announced Tuesday. The Department of Justice charged nine people in a criminal conspiracy with making more than $US30 million ($A41.43 million) in illegal…