Seen at InsideToronto.com: The website of Canada’s largest Asian supermarket chain has been hacked. Richmond, BC-based T&T Supermarket Inc, which has three locations in Toronto (two in Scarborough and one in the port lands), advised the public of “unauthorized and illegal intrusions” on its website – www.tnt-supermarket.com – in a June 24 press release. The…
Category: Breach Incidents
Citigroup Cites $2.7 Million in Customer Losses From Hack
Randall Smith reports: Citigroup Inc. has told government officials that about 3,400 of the customers whose credit-card information was hacked have suffered about $2.7 million in losses, according to people familiar with the matter. The disclosure is the first acknowledgment by the New York company that the May security breach resulted in any losses. Citigroup…
10 days and additional information later…. (BioWare update)
Back on June 14, BioWare learned that they had been hacked. The following day, and as reported here previously, they notified users on their forum that the hack may have compromised “information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts.” Today, 10 days later, my son received…
RxAmerica and Accendo Insurance notify 175,000 Medicare beneficiaries that mailing error exposed their medication name, date of birth, and member ID
RxAmerica and Accendo Insurance Company, providers of drug benefits to eligible beneficiaries under the Medicare Part D program, issued the following statement today regarding a recent patient information issue: “RxAmerica and Accendo Insurance Company have notified Medicare Part D beneficiaries enrolled in the company’s Prescription Drug Plans that some of their personal information may have…
Citi skimps on “standard” customer monitoring after security breach
Reuters reports: After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates. Citigroup, which had over 360,000 credit card accounts exposed last month, sent letters to affected customers this month with advice on protecting themselves…
LulzSec Releases International Naturist Federation Database of members
International Naturist Federation INF has been hacked it would seem, in one of the latest of a string of attacks in the cyber war thats going down they have had all the members details exposed on paste bin. INF is a Naturist federation site, I’m not totally sure if this si part of #anti security…