To follow up on a potential class-action lawsuit against POSitouch and its reseller, CC Productions , DataBreaches.net spoke with the founder of Brew HaHa!, one of the clients in the possible lawsuit. Brew HaHa! is a 10-store espresso chain in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and the breach has not been previously reported anywhere. Another client, who…
Category: Breach Incidents
Former U. Akron student pleads guilty to damaging systems, DDoS attacks
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced Wednesday Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli and pleaded guilty to a two-count Information filed on May 14, 2010, which charged Frost with causing damage to a protected computer system and possessing…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Unencrypted. Employee’s car. Pardon me while I spit. Peggy O’Farrell reports (emphasis added by me): Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s…
UK: Council says sorry after security breach
Council chiefs have apologised after the National Insurance numbers of thousands of pension holders were disclosed. The NI numbers were printed in the address fields of 6,600 pension newsletters from Northumberland County Council and were clearly visible through the cellophane of the envelopes. Staff at the third-party mailing company used to send out the newsletters…
NV: School district denies illegal record disposal accusation
Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District denied that student records are being disposed illegally, an allegation made recently by information protection professional Tom Considine during his radio show “Who Complys.” Considine said CCSD employees contacted him last year asking about proper disposal of student records, claiming the district dumps special education and psychological…
POSitouch mfgr responds to lawsuit threat claims
Earlier this week, I posted a press release about a potential lawsuit against POSitouch and its New Jersey reseller, CC Productions. I contacted both POSitouch and the reseller to ask for a response, and POSitouch has just sent me a press release that they issued today. I have not heard back from their reseller. I…