Fox17 reports: There has been a significant security breach at a Pilot Travel Center in Middle Tennessee. Dozens of people are coming forward claiming that someone stole their debit card information. The information has been used to withdraw cash at ATM’s in California and New York. […] FOX 17 News spoke with many victims all…
Category: Business Sector
Starbucks sat on its clear-text password problem for months
Evan Schuman reports: When Starbucks published the new version of its iOS mobile app yesterday to fix its passwords-in-clear-text problem, it demonstrated a seemingly awesome ability to correct a serious security issue in a single day. But was it truly awesome? Not if it knew about the security hole for months. Not if it knew about it before it published the prior iOS app…
KC engineer ‘exposed unencrypted spreadsheet with phone numbers, user IDs, PASSWORDS’
Kelly Fiveash reports: Hull’s dominant telco, KC, is investigating revelations of what appears to be poor handling of the company’s customer data. This comes after a recent sign-up claimed one of its engineers had unwittingly exposed a customer spreadsheet containing the telephone numbers, user IDs and unencrypted passwords of all its subscribers. Read more on…
Missouri Tax Preparer Indicted On Fraud Charges
St. Louis, MO – The owner and operator of a St. Louis County tax preparation service was indicted yesterday for filing false returns and stealing the identities of taxpayers. RONALD SHONIWA, of Florissant, faces one count of theft of government funds for filing 15 tax returns, which generated more than $50,000 in improperly paid refunds, and…
Cybercrime firm uncovered six active attacks on U.S. merchants
Jim Finkle reports: The cyber security firm IntelCrawler said on Friday that it has uncovered six ongoing attacks at merchants across the United States whose credit card processing systems are infected with the same type of malicious software used to steal data from some 40 million credit cards at Target Inc. So what are consumers…
Target Hackers Wrote Partly in Russian, Displayed High Skill, Report Finds
Danny Yadron reports: The holiday data breach at Target Corp. appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, according to a report prepared by federal and private investigators that was sent to financial-services companies and retailers. The report offers some of the first details to emerge about the source…