Reeves International is notifying consumers who made purchases on BreyerHorses.com that their personal information may have been compromised in a breach that went undetected for 18 months. In a letter to those affected, Arthur Minnocci, CFO, writes: On September 9, 2014, we learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on the computer server hosting the Breyer Horses…
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Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….
Personal info of almost 100,000 people exposed through flaw on site for student transcripts
Ashkan Soltani, Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima report: The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web…
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…
NZ: Legal firm divulges private files
Phil Kitchin reports: A lawyer’s practice used clients’ sensitive files as recycling paper for photocopying – and posted out hundreds of pages of private and confidential details about their cases. The details, sent to a former client who requested a copy of her own file, include names and addresses of people involved in suppressed court…
Wyndham Execs Escape Derivative Suit Over Cyberattacks
Beth Winegarner reports that a shareholder’s lawsuit filed against Wyndham over its data breaches has been dismissed: A New Jersey federal judge on Monday threw out a Wyndham Worldwide Corp. shareholder’s derivative action over a series of security breaches, finding no evidence that Wyndham’s Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys had a conflict of interest when…