Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg reports: The three big U.S. credit-reporting agencies have agreed to be more helpful. Errors in your credit history will now be easier to correct and delinquent medical bills will take longer to hurt your credit score. An agreement announced Monday between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion will limit the…
Category: Business Sector
Point-of-Sale Vendor NEXTEP Probes Breach
Brian Krebs reports: NEXTEP Systems, a Troy, Mich.-based vendor of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, casinos, airports and other food service venues, was recently notified by law enforcement that some of its customer locations have been compromised in a potentially wide-ranging credit card breach, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The acknowledgement came in response to reports by sources in…
Alabama And Georgia Residents Sentenced To Prison For Their Participation In $3 Million Identity Theft Scheme
A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in prison for her role in a more than $3 million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF) tax scheme. Carnesha Alexander was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $840,692. On Feb. 5, a…
Toys ‘R Us asks loyalty card holders to change passwords
Susan Tampor writes: I received a “Security Update” last week via e-mail regarding the rewards program that I signed up for several years ago at Toys R Us. Given all the scams, I wondered whether this notice was some kind of trick. But it was legitimate. […] Kathleen Waugh, vice president of corporate communications for…
Possible ISIS group hacks into 2 local websites
KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…
MX: Vivanuncios user data stolen by hacker (nah – scraped by competitor)
Update/Clarification: eBay reached out to DataBreaches.net to ask that we make clear that the breach did not occur after eBay purchased the site, but rather, it occurred while it was still on the W3 system – before eBay bought it. eBay also notes that “we launched an entirely new platform on January 15, 2015 when the acquisition was…