In February, I noted a breach involving 800,000 Orange customers that occurred in January. Now Reuters reports: French telecoms group Orange said around 1.3 million subscribers or potential subscribers fell victim to a theft of personal data, including telephone numbers, dates of birth and email addresses, last month. […] In mid-April, hackers accessed a software…
Category: Business Sector
Wyndham faces more litigation over breaches – this time, from shareholders
The FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham over three data breaches didn’t go unnoticed by Wyndham’s shareholders, one of whom, Dennis Palkon, recently filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit against Wyndham Worldwide Corporation and its executives in federal court in New Jersey. I’ve uploaded the lawsuit here (pdf, 8.4MB, 86 pp.). The redactions are in the court filing, and…
UK: Lucia Bar in ‘shocking’ privacy breach
Anwen Baker reports: Lucia Wine Bar and Grill have been accused of breaking data protection laws after the CVs of over 600 people, including York students, were uploaded to their website. The CVs and cover letters of 605 people who had applied online to work at Lucia, which has branches in York and Beverley, were…
Affinity Gaming reports second data breach
Howard Stutz reports that Affinity Gaming has reported a second hacking incident involving its payment card processing system. But although its first incident reportedly affected up to 300,000 customers, Affinity Gaming is confident this breach did not result in the theft of any customer card data after April 28th. They do not indicate when the…
In wake of massive data breach, Target CEO steps down
In the wake of its massive data breach, Gregg Steinhafel, Chairman of the Target board of directors, president and CEO, steps down.
Ex-Insider Sounds Alarm On Hotel And Restaurant Data Security
Last week, I linked to a report from Consumer Reports that contained a somewhat startling allegation by the former director of security compliance for Wyndham: Now, David Durko, former director of Wyndham’s security compliance management, says that many independently owned and operated Wyndham hotels doing business under the Super 8 brand name don’t comply with Payment…