I’m having deja vu because I could have sworn I had already reported this type of scam on this blog, but since I can’t find it now…. Aaron Akinyemi reports: Up to 10,000 customers of the hotel booking website Booking.com have been the victims of scammers using fraudulently obtained email addresses to steal thousands of…
Category: Business Sector
Email addresses of 4,000 New Brunswickers released by Skillsoft in cc: gaffe
CBC News reports that Skillsoft, a company that develops and manages professional courses the government offers online through SkillsNB, exposed more than 4,000 New Brunswickers’ email addresses by accidentally using the cc: field in an email, instead of the bcc: field.
Orange Romania fined with RON 10,000 by data protection body
Telecompaper reports: Orange Romania was fined with RON 10,000 by data protection authorities for failing to comply with the obligations concerning the application of security measures and keeping the confidentiality of end-users’ personal phone data, according to local paper Hotnews.ro. The operator was sanctioned after a customer sent a complaint saying that his replacement phone…
Home Depot says 53 million more email addresses stolen; retailers urge Congress to pass data breach law
Reuters reports: Home Depot Inc, the world’s largest home improvement chain, said about 53 million more email addresses were taken during a recent breach of its payment data systems. […] Home Depot said the stolen files that contained the additional email addresses did not include passwords, payment card information or other sensitive personal information. Criminals…
“We thought we had done all that could be done to protect your information.” (update)
Even those who are conscientious may find themselves having to notify consumers of a breach, as One Love Organics discovered last month. In a letter dated October 30 and signed by Suzanne LeRoux, President of the Georgia-based, LeRoux writes: We had performed the required security and hardening procedures required by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI…
Lyft Accuses Former COO Of Stealing Confidential Documents Before Joining Uber
Ryan Lawler reports: On-demand rides startup Lyft is taking its former COO Travis VanderZanden to court for breach of his confidentiality agreement and fiduciary duty weeks after the executive joined arch-rival Uber. In a complaint filed this afternoon in San Francisco Superior Court, Lyft claims VanderZanden downloaded a number of non-public company documents to his personal Dropbox account…