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Rowan Companies notifies employees, vendors, and contractors of system intrusion

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Dissent

Rowan Companies in Houston, Texas reports that on May 13, they detected an intrusion into their system that contained employee and non-employee vendor and contractor personal information.  According to their notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, they also received some reports of misuse of personal credit card, PayPal accounts, and bank account information. Although…

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Fraudsters Allegedly Used Data Stolen From Dominican Republic Call Center

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Dissent

Narayan Ammachchi reports: The Dominican Republic has arrested 17 men on suspicion of stealing data from call centers and extorting money from American citizens.  Police in the island state are reportedly hunting for four more suspects. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the suspects impersonated its special agents and extorted about US$880,000. The…

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Former restaurant employee charged with stealing customer info

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Dissent

Hospitality sector continues to pose a huge risk to the security of our payment card info, and insiders are often involved: A former restaurant employee is accused of stealing customers’ credit card information then using it to pay her own bills. Authorities charged Jolene Weisheit with fraud. Investigators say she used to work at the…

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New resource to help merchants understand PCI-DSS compliance

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Dissent

Back in 2010, while blogging about a POS breach at a small merchant, I noted that small merchants and Mom and Pop outfits weren’t getting enough information and support to be PCI-DSS compliant. One of my main resources for breaches in the hospitality sector has been Charles Hoff, JD, MBA. Charles has extensive experience representing…

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Paytime, Inc. breach affected over 216,000

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Dissent

One day, businesses will heed my sage advice not to stay in the news cycle by letting details dribble out piecemeal. Today is not the day, however, so thankfully, idRADAR did some digging and has found out that over 215,000 were affected by the Paytime, Inc. breach covered previously on this blog. Jeanne Price reports:…

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Monsanto Confirms Security Breach (updated)

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Dissent

Jacob Bunge and Tony Dreibus report: Monsanto Co. confirmed Thursday that a security breach in one of the seed company’s servers left exposed some customer credit-card information and Monsanto employee data. The breach occurred in late March, affecting about 1,300 farmers who are customers of Monsanto’s Precision Planting division, which makes specialized seed-planting equipment, according…

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