Jason Miller reports: About 80,000 employees of federal contractors are at risk of identity theft after a hacker broke into business research firm Deltek’s GovWin IQ system. In an email to vendors, which Federal News Radio obtained and was confirmed by Deltek, Mike Corkery, the company’s president and CEO, said it discovered on March 13…
Category: Business Sector
Update to VALIC databreach
Gene Valicenti has an update on the VALIC databreach reported previously on this blog. The breach generated a number of questions, including why it took so long for the life insurance and retirement plan firm to figure out what happened and why it took so long for them to determine who needed to be notified…
Iowa, North Carolina join states studying Experian breach – Reuters
Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld of Reuters also have more on the Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search that has put millions of consumers at risk of identity theft or financial fraud: Iowa and North Carolina said they are looking into a breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed some 200 million social security numbers,…
Federal court denies Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ motion to dismiss FTC’s complaint
Ashkan Soltani has uploaded an important ruling in FTC v. Wyndham, a case discussed many times on this blog. The short version of the ruling is that Wyndham went 0 for 3 on its challenges to the FTC’s authority to enforce data security under the FTC Act, to enforce data security in the absence of regulations that…
Neiman Marcus Data Breach Said Work of Russians Who Eluded U.S.
Michael Riley reports: Hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. belong to a sophisticated Russian syndicate that has stolen more than 160 million credit-card numbers from retailers over seven years, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Russian group is well known to U.S. authorities, who have indicted…
SQL Injection Leads To BigMoneyJobs.com Leak
From DataLossDB and Risk Based Security: Earlier today, a hacker identified as ProbablyOnion (who recently breached Boxee.tv) has posted data from a large job seeker website resulting in over 36,000 accounts being published online. The website BigMoneyJobs.com is a large hub for job seekers and employers looking to hire them. The breach was announced over Twitter and…