Scott Dolan reports: The parent company of the popular Planet Fitness gym chain Monday fired a Maine man who worked as its payroll manager, accusing him of stealing “highly sensitive personal and financial information” about its employees. Planet Fitness, based in Newington, New Hampshire, made the accusations public in a lawsuit filed against the fired…
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NL: “Bored” former Jumbo employee gets community service, fine, for hacking firm’s computers
Janene Van Jaarsveldt reports: A company inspector working at the Jumbo supermarket chain has to pay 30 thousand euros in compensation for hacking into nearly 100 corporate laptops. The court in Den Bosch made this ruling on Monday, Omroep Brabant reports. The 37 year old man from Helmond was also sentenced to 120 hours of…
Uber To Boost Security Staff After Data Privacy Concerns
Aditya Tejas reports: Ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. will increase its security team by about fourfold to over 100 employees to quell concerns about data privacy and accessibility, the company’s new chief security officer said Sunday. […]In February, the company reported a major data breach that compromised the personal information of about 50,000 drivers. A report from the…
Missing Link breach impacted 250,000?
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…
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,…