Saratoga Sweets is notifying customers about a hack of their web host’s server. They first learned of the hack on November 25. In a letter dated December 13, Michael Fitzgerald, Sr. writes that an unauthorized person was able to access the server containing customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and CCV numbers. Forensic…
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Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets
Brian Krebs remains all over the Target breach: Credit and debit card accounts stolen in a recent data breach at retail giant Target have been flooding underground black markets in recent weeks, selling in batches of one million cards and going for anywhere from $20 to more than $100 per card, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Prior…
Target’s notice to customers
If you shopped at Target between November 27 and Dec. 15, see
CN: Data leak traced to YTO employee
Jiang Yabin reports: A YTO Express employee has been arrested for selling the express delivery company’s customer information to an online dealer, local media reported Thursday. The suspect, surnamed Wang, who was arrested on October 15, is awaiting charges of illegally selling personal information, including names, telephone numbers and addresses, said a prosecutor surnamed Yin…
Hackers break into Washington Post servers
Craig Timberg reports: Hackers broke into The Washington Post’s servers and gained access to employee user names and passwords, marking at least the third intrusion over the past three years, company officials said Wednesday. The extent of the loss of company data was not immediately clear, although officials planned to ask all employees to change their user…
Sources: Target Investigating Data Breach (update 1)
Brian Krebs has the scoop on what sounds like another major data breach – again: Nationwide retail giant Target is investigating a data breach potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records, multiple reliable sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The sources said the breach appears to have begun on or around Black Friday 2013 —…