Mike Lennon reports additional details on a breach noted previously on this blog: SP+, a company that provides parking, maintenance and security services to property owners, said on Friday that an unauthorized attacker gained access to its payment processing systems and was able to access customer names and payment card information. The company said that…
Category: Business Sector
More from the Sony Pictures hack: Budgets, Layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 SSN
Kevin Roose reports: Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace. The document, which listed the names, titles, and salaries of more than 6,000 Sony Pictures employees including senior executives (and may have revealed…
More Trouble For Sony? PlayStation Servers ‘Used To Spread Stolen Data’
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Things could be about to go from bad to worse for Sony. Having been allegedly hacked by a crew going by the name of Guardians of Peace (GOP) and an alleged 27GB of data chucked on numerous peer-to-peer file sharing networks, it’s now emerged PlayStation Network web servers are being used to hand out…
Target fails to end banks’ lawsuit over data breach
Jonathan Stempel reports: A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Target Corp’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by banks seeking to recoup money they spent reimbursing fraudulent charges and issuing new credit and debit cards because of the retailer’s late 2013 data breach. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota said Target played a…
Iran-backed hackers targeted airlines, energy firms: report
Jim Finkle reports: Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world’s top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance. Read more on Reuters. UPDATE and CORRECTION: Reuters later changed their headline from “Iran…
American Residuals and Talent (ART Payroll) notifying employees of hack
Oregon-based American Residuals and Talent, Inc. (“ART”) (ART Payroll) is notifying former and current clients’ employees of a data breach. Emily Erskine, President of ART, writes: On October 18, 2014, we detected an unauthorized login onto our web application. We worked immediately to contain the unauthorized access and prevent it from happening again. The unauthorized…