Jack Bouboushian reports: Lax security at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro allowed hackers to steal up to 7 million customers’ credit and debit card numbers, and the restaurant waited nine months to tell customers about the security breach, a class action claims in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff John Lewert sued P.F. Chang’s China Bistro on Wednesday….
Category: ID Theft
Update: Data breach at Splash car wash compromises thousands of bank accounts
Stephanie Simoni reports: There’s a warning for people who use certain “Splash” Car Wash locations. The company is now saying as many as 30,000 customers may have had their bank accounts compromised due to a data breach at Splash. Read more on WTNH. So far, the company is aware of 1,400 cases, and the 30,000…
AL: Hardee’s worker busted for stealing credit card numbers at Greenville drive-thru
Lindsey Rogers reports: A Greenville woman is accused of stealing credit card numbers from customers at a Hardee’s fast food restaurant. Investigators say she then used the information to buy thousands of dollars worth of clothes, shoes and jewelry online. Tanya Powell, 41, of Greenville, was arrested Monday and charged with fraudulent use of a…
MI: ID thieves hack into Grand Avenue parking ramp system in Lansing
Scott Davis reports: Computer hackers have stolen credit card information from patrons of the Grand Avenue parking ramp in downtown Lansing. One of the ramp’s owner is urging users to replace their cards. Shawn Elliott, an owner of the ramp, said he shut down the ramp’s credit card processing system Friday after a patron told…
Card Breaches at Car Washes
Brian Krebs reports: An investigation into a string of credit card breaches at dozens of car wash locations across the United States illustrates the challenges facing local law enforcement as they seek to connect the dots between cybercrime and local gang activity that increasingly cross multiple domestic and international borders. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. Some of the…
Ca: Henry v Bell Mobility: Another Federal Court case shows PIPEDA damages are hardly worth pursuing absent evidence of actual harm
Canadian privacy lawyer David T.S. Fraser writes: The Federal Court, in the recently issued decision in Henry v Bell Mobility 2014 FC 555 (not yet on CanLII or the Court’s site) has awarded a very modest sum of damages to a customer of Bell Mobility whose phone account was accessed by an impostor. At the hearing…