It’s not just Walmart Canada whose customers were affected by a breach involving third-party vendor PNI Digital Media. Brian Krebs reports that CVS was also affected.
Category: Business Sector
NZ: Data leak: Real estate staffer fired
Auckland’s biggest real estate firm has fired the employee who leaked the sales data that sparked a controversy about the number of overseas Chinese buying houses in New Zealand. Barfoot & Thompson‘s managing director, Peter Thompson, and chief executive, Wendy Alexander, confirmed the sacking after conducting an investigation into the leak, which Labour used to…
Alfa Specialty Insurance and Alfa Vision Insurance notify customers of personal information leak
Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…
Indiana radio station hacked by Anonymous
WIVB reports: An Indiana radio station was apparently hacked Sunday evening. If you were tuning in to WXXR 97.3 in Terre Haute, you might have heard a message from “Anonymous.” “Anonymous” is an activist group that hacks websites, to express their views and messages. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the FM signal was intercepted and a…
PA: ‘Numerous’ Cases Of Identity Theft And Fraud Hits Phoenixville
Justin Heinze reports: There have been “numerous” cases of identity theft and credit card fraud in Phoenixville recently, and most of the victims have been patrons of Nudy’s Cafe, according to the Phoenixville Police Department. If you have visited any of the Nudy’s Cafe locations since March and paid with a credit card, police are…
LA: Customers at Houma buffet victims of $20,000 in credit card fraud
Maki Somosot reports: Multiple customers have lost up to $20,000 after using their credit and debit cards at Houma’s Dynasty Buffet between June 26 and July 3, the Terrebonne sheriff’s office said. Detectives are still counting up the total combined loss. Read more on WWL. So your business accepts credit cards, but you don’t run…