Three Killeen, TX, residents were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a tax refund scheme with an estimated intended loss of $1.8 million. United States District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 34-year-old Albert Powell, 32-year-old Paris Stephens and 34-year-old Ronnie Cole to 54 months, 36 months and 18 months in federal prison, respectively. Judge Yeakel…
Category: Business Sector
Sony files Motion to Dismiss class-action; argues no ID theft = no standing
Josh Dickey reports: No one has been the victim of identity theft in the five months since the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment exposed reams of sensitive data, so a class-action lawsuit should be dismissed, the studio argues in court documents acquired Friday by Mashable. Read more on Mashable.
Verifone statement on default password Z66831
Earlier today, DataBreaches.net asked Verifone for a comment or response to the report about an unnamed firm using the same default password for 25 years, as it was pretty easy to figure out from a Google search that an unnamed vendor was them. Gene Cyranski, Vice President of Zeno Group kindly sent this statement in response: The Verifone default…
Point-of-Sale vendor has used the same admin password for 25 years
Alan Martin reports: A major vendor of point-of-sale terminals has not changed the default passwords used on its devices in a quarter of a century, researchers have revealed at RSA 2015. The firm was not named during the presentation by Charles Henderson and David Byrne for security reasons, but it is said to be a widely used manufacturer. Although…
Adobe To Settle Data Breach Claims Over 3M Payment Cards
Allison Grande reports: Adobe Systems Inc. has agreed to settle a consolidated proposed class action in California federal court over its alleged failure to safeguard users’ data from a breach that compromised at least 3 million payment card records, although the court on Wednesday agreed to give the parties an extra month to finalize their deal….
NJ: Tax preparer sentenced for selling clients’ personal information
Isaac Avilucea reports: Two-faced is the way a county prosecutor described city tax worker Lee Roberts II, who sold Mercer County residents’ personal information to a convicted felon and “known fraudster” turned cooperating witness for $200 in 2011. “He had a public face, and he had a private face,” Assistant Prosecutor James Scott said of…