Shruti Dhapola reports: A hacker group by the name Team Unknown has claimed that they successfully hacked into OlaCabs and managed to get access to sensitive information like credit-card history, vouchers, user behaviour. Ola has denied these claims. According to the post, which was shared on Reddit, the hackers put out snapshots which showcased credit cards…
Category: Business Sector
UK: Laptop with MoD Donnington employee details stolen
Shropshire Star reports a laptop with personal details – including bank account details – of employees at the Ministry of Defense Donnington base was stolen from the car of an employee of Kuehne and Nagel on Tuesday. “We Kuehne and Nagel confirm that the company laptop of an employee went missing, presumed stolen, on June…
Eataly payment card breach spanned 3 months; NYC customers offered credit monitoring services
Eataly, the high-end Italian food market that announced a payment system breach provided additional details in an update: Eataly NY, LLC (“Eataly”) recently became aware of a personal information security incident possibly affecting certain individuals who made a payment card purchase at the Eataly NYC Retail Marketplace, located at 200 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (the “NYC…
Bin bods Brabantia breached, customer passwords trashed
Alexander J. Martin reports: Brabantia, the Dutch company most well known for making steel bins, has been hacked within the last 24 hours, and customer details may have been exposed. An email Brabantia has sent to consumers explains that “as part of our routine monitoring, we have been made aware that our database accounts have…
SunPower Alleges SunEdison Poached Employees, Trade Secrets
Peter Blumberg reports: SunPower Corp. sued SunEdison Inc. over claims the rival solar manufacturer recruited away employees who stole trade secrets. SunPower said its competitor acquired proprietary information when it poached 20 workers in the U.S., Spain and Italy from 2011 to 2014, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco….
Maybe Florida should, like, ya know, pass a law actually requiring secure destruction of records with personal info?
C’mon, Florida law firms: get your data protection/records disposal act together, will you? This is the second report of improper data disposal this week. The first was in Orlando.