Here we go again: another disgruntled former employee with IT skills wrecks havoc on their former employer. The Leicester Mercury reports that The Gas Superstore lost £41,000 and had to stop trading for three days because of Andrew Kenneth Plumb’s actions. Reporter Suzy Gibson notes: He cancelled customers’ deliveries and uploaded pictures of Coronation Street characters,…
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Woolworths leaks $1 million of gift cards in massive data breach debacle
Oops. Grocery giant Woolworths has scrambled to cancel over $1 million worth of shopping vouchers after a massive leak of customer data, in which it mistakenly emailed the redeemable codes of 8000 gift cards containing the customers’ names and email addresses. Fairfax Media has obtained a copy of the email which contained an excel spreadsheet with the names and email address…
HOLA vpn sells users’ bandwidth, founder confirms
Andy writes: The operator of 8chan says the bandwidth of millions of Hola users is being sold for reuse, with some of it even being used to attack his site. Speaking with TorrentFreak, Hola founder Ofer Vilenski says that users’ idle resources are indeed utilized for commercial sale, but that has been the agreement all…
Credit Unions, Trades Sue Home Depot
Peter Strozniak reports: A consolidated class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Ga. Wednesday listed 37 credit unions, 16 state leagues, CUNA and 11 banks that claimed the 2014 Home Depot data breach caused billions of dollars in fraud losses and more than $150 million in card reissuance costs. Read more on Credit Union…
FL: Personal documents, SSN found in dumpster behind Orlando law firms
WFTV reports: Several local law firms could be in hot water for dumping sensitive information containing client information into a dumpster. Law firms are supposed to shred or burn the information, officials said, but piles of sensitive documents, including bank account information, were in plain sight. Unfortunately, they don’t report the names of the law…
Sally Beauty Provides Update On Recent Security Investigation
DENTON, Texas — May 28, 2015 Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) updated its customers today on its ongoing investigation of the illegal intrusion into its payment card systems and efforts to provide support to customers who may have been affected by the incident. As previously announced, the Company began an investigation into a possible…