Kansas City-based accounting firm Walters McCann Fanska is notifying clients that their personal and financial account information may have been acquired by a hacker or hackers who had access to the firm’s network from sometime late last year until late February 2015. To their credit, the firm noticed suspicious activity with some accounts at the end…
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Equifax discloses data breach due to technical error during software change
Credit reporting giant Equifax is notifying some consumers that some of their personal information may have erroneously been sent to other individuals due to a technical error during a software change. Equifax discovered the problem on March 15, and notes that they attempted to call all recipients of the inadvertent disclosures to recover the files…
Southern Powerlifting Federation member data repeatedly dumped – does anyone there notice?
Today’s second example of an entity not knowing their data has been repeatedly dumped is Southern Powerlifting Federation. On April 7, “Jabb” (@Versifyings) dumped some of their smf_members database on Pastebin. The dump consisted of approximately 440 email addresses and hashed passwords. The database records indicate that there were over 15,000 records. Whether Jabbs acquired them all…
FL: Fraudsters used info skimmed from restaurant customers
The South Beach restaurant whose customers had their data skimmed was not named in this press release. There’s also no explanation of where the defendants obtained Social Security numbers and other personal information: United States v. Christopher M. Mack, Case No. 15-2317-MJ-O’Sullivan On March 16, 2015, Christopher M. Mack, 30, of Miami, was charged by criminal complaint…
French media groups hold emergency meeting in wake of ISIS hacking attack
Angelique Chrisafis and Samuel Gibbs report: The French culture minister has called an urgent meeting of media groups to assess their vulnerability to hacking after the television network TV5Monde was taken over by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic State, blacking out broadcasts and hacking its websites and Facebook page. Visiting the network’s headquarters in Paris…
PF Chang’s continues its success in thwarting data breach class action lawsuits
Linn Freedman writes: We have been closely watching the class action suits against PF Chang’s (and other retailers) relating to the bistro’s data breach last year. In December, a federal district court in Illinois dismissed a proposed class action against PF Chang’s because the plaintiffs were unable to show that they had suffered actual harm…