Kate Marino reports: Hackers have claimed some high-profile corporate victims over the last year, with household names like Target and Home Depot typically reaping the lion’s share of media attention. Cyber attacks represent a growing threat to the business world, and their fallout could cost the global economy as much as $3 trillion by 2020, according to a McKinsey & Co….
Category: Business Sector
UK: Nisa is rocked by password thefts
Oliver Shah reports Preparations for Nisa Retail’s annual meeting tomorrow have been disrupted by a damaging leak of members’ data. A whistleblower at the convenience store supplier, which has a turnover of £1.6bn, drew attention to the circulation of a spreadsheet containing shareholders’ addresses, phone numbers and online passwords. The data, seen by The Sunday Times,…
Signature Systems Breach Expands
Brian Krebs reports: Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving some 216 Jimmy John’s sandwich shop locations, now says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants across the country that use its products. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.
Benesse ordered to improve personal info management after data theft
Kyodo News provides an update to a breach involving education services provider Benesse. The breach was disclosed in July: The industry ministry on Friday ordered Benesse Corp. to improve its management of personal information after the company was embroiled in Japan’s biggest-ever data theft. The company’s investigative team has found that some 28.95 million customers…
Pacific Biosciences of California notifying employees of breach
Pacific Biosciences of California is notifying employees and dependents after a laptop with personal information was stolen from an employee’s home. The theft occurred on September 16. In a letter to those affected, Natalie Welch, Senior Director of Human Resources, writes that the personal information involved included names, contact information, birthdates, Social Security numbers, direct…
iThemes Suffers Security Breach, Customers Urged To Reset Passwords
Jeff Chandler reports: iThemes published details on a security breach that took place earlier today. According to the announcement, after noticing suspicious activity, they noticed a signification attack on their membership database. iThemes urges all customers to reset their passwords immediately. To protect accounts from any unauthorized access, iThemes has temporarily reset all user passwords. To regain…