Richard Chirgwin reports: Retail coupon operator Catch-of-the-Day has escaped penalty over sitting on a data breach for three years. The 2011 data breach was notified to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in 2014. Catch of the Day put the delay down to deciding that the hashed passwords in the compromised systems “might” be…
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Home Depot asks court to dismiss consumers’ data breach lawsuit
David Allison reports: The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by consumers claiming they were hurt by the company’s massive data breach. “All of the claims alleged in the complaint suffer from the same fatal defect found in the vast majority of other breach cases…
Bengal: Confidential data theft; 1 arrested
The cyber cell of Bidhannagar city police today arrested a youth on charges of stealing and selling confidential details of the clients of an IT company to various cyber crime rackets, causing losses amounting to Rs 2.5 crore, police said. Police arrested Arijit Debnath from Salt Lake Sector-V and seized a pen drive and a mobile phone which were used to steal and keep customer details of the IT…
UK: Former The Gas Superstore employee sentenced for revenge hacking
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,…
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…