Press release from Massachusetts Attorney General Coakley: Following reports that criminals were able to gain access to a commercial database that contained the personal information, including social security numbers, of more than 200 million U.S. citizens, Attorney General Martha Coakley, along with attorneys general across the country, have opened an investigation into the data broker…
Category: Business Sector
Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch/Experian breach resulted in ID theft – Krebs
Brian Kreb presents some evidence that the breach involving Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch/Experian* (discussed elsewhere on this blog) did result in harm to individuals, depite an Experian executive telling Congress in December 2013 that there had been no reports of harm from the breach. Of course, it never made any sense to any of us that…
University of Virginia, Spokeo, Indiana among eight more sites hacked by NullCrew (update1)
Students and employees of the University of Virginia (UVa) may be scratching their heads today and wondering what UVa can or will do to secure its servers better. The university, which was hacked in 2012 by @AnonAntidote and again in 2013 by a former UVa student known as @R00tTh3B0x, has reportedly been hacked yet again –…
IN: Employee defection sparks battle between brokerages
Chris O’Malley reports: A legal battle has broken out between two insurance brokerages, with Hylant Group alleging Huntington Insurance hired one its former employees who then lured away two of its clients. Toledo,Ohio-based Hylant, which has offices in Carmel, alleges former employee Nicholas Iaonnacci, of Indianapolis, violated a two-year non-compete clause of his employment agreement…
Moscow Hacker Faces Extradition Requests by U.S., Russia
David Voreacos and Maud van Gaal: A Muscovite accused of helping to lead the most prolific computer hacking ring to hit corporate America faces competing extradition requests by the U.S. and Russia. Vladimir Drinkman, who has been in custody in the Netherlands since his arrest on June 28, 2012, was the subject of an extradition…
Michaels Stores (finally) confirms breach affecting 2.6M cards at Michaels, 400K at Aaron Brothers
Michaels Stores, who announced on January 25 that they had been informed of a possible breach that they were investigating, has now (finally) confirmed the breach first reported by Brian Krebs. Posted on their web site today: In January, we notified you that we might have experienced a data security incident. We wanted you to…