Matt Townsend provides this update: Home Depot Inc. (HD:US), the largest home-improvement chain, has enlistedSymantec Corp. (SYMC:US) and FishNet Security Inc. to help investigate a suspected data breach after learning of the possibility earlier this week. Home Deport is working with the companies and other top information-security firms to review the situation, Paula Drake, a spokeswoman for the…
Category: Business Sector
Target Wants Banks’ Claims Tossed In Data Breach MDL
This is where lawyers earn their keep: Target Corp. urged a Minnesota federal judge on Tuesday to toss a consolidated class action over the company’s massive data breach, arguing that the bank plaintiffs cannot claim negligence because they do not have a direct relationship with Target. Target argues that under state law, merchants aren’t liable…
Update: Nearly All U.S. Home Depot Stores Hit – Krebs
Brian Krebs reports: New data gathered from the cybercrime underground suggests that the apparent credit and debit card breach at Home Depot involves nearly all of the company’s stores across the nation. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Harry Barker, Omega Net, Geekface, SuperValu Data Breaches Measured
I’ve covered three of these breaches on this blog before, but idRADAR has some new details and includes a breach I hadn’t covered, involving HarryBarker.com: It’s often tough to know how serious a data breach is in the days immediately following discovery. Some companies like to dance around the specifics. In other cases, there are…
UK: Computer hacker shut down Derbyshire holiday firm website in dispute over payment
Martin Naylor reports: A computer hacker shut down the website of a Derbyshire holiday firm with which he was in dispute “in an act of petty revenge”. A judge told Glyn Berrington that what he had done to Ashbourne-based Menorca Private Owners “was like stealing a workman’s tools”. Derby Crown Court heard how Berrington, 49, had that…
Bartell Hotels reports five of their hotels suffered compromise of customer data
Posted on Bartell Hotels website: We deeply value your business. The security of your personal information is our top priority which is why, as a precautionary measure, we are informing you of a data security incident which occurred between February 16, 2014 and May 13, 2014 that may involve certain credit card data, including your…