Charlie Misra reports: The sudden closure of Coco’s Bakery and Restaurant in Santa Maria a few days ago was a shock to both employees and customers. Former employees say they’ve been dealt another blow and some of them found their personnel files tossed in the dumpsters out back. Read more on KSBY.
Category: Business Sector
Potential class action lawsuit against eBay dismissed
It was a good day for eBay in a federal court in Louisiana. Judge Susie Morgan dismissed, without prejudice, a potential class action lawsuit that had filed in July 2014 by Collin Green against eBay over the data breach they had disclosed in 2014. At the time, eBay said it had no evidence that payment…
EllisLab Tells Users to Change Passwords After its Web Host Discovers Security Breach
Nicole Henderson reports: EllisLab, the software development company behind the ExpressionEngine CMS, announced on Friday that hackers gained unauthorized access to its servers at the end of March and may have obtained customers’ personal information in the process. According to a post-mortem blog post, hackers logged into EllisLab.com with a stolen Super Admin password at 10:49…
More Uber Accounts Hacked – or Old Stolen Data First Being Misused?
Motherboard reports: Back in March, Motherboard revealed that fully functioning Uber accounts were for sale on the dark web for as cheap as $1 each. At the time, it appeared that the victims of those hacks were based in the United Kingdom. Now, Uber customers from all over the United States have taken to Twitter to complain that their…
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. Statement
Sally Beauty has issued the following statement. Their name may seem familiar to you because this site reported on an earlier breach last year. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is currently investigating reports of unusual activity involving payment cards used at some of our U.S. Sally Beauty stores. Since learning of these reports, we have been working with…
Ca: More data dumped from Detour Gold
I had told Detour Gold to keep an eye out for future data dumps when I spoke with them weeks ago to notify them that they had been hacked, and I wasn’t surprised to receive an email last night from someone pointing me to a new data dump. The data dump includes personal information on employees as well…