Hailee Lampert reports: An investigation is under way following several incidents of credit card fraud. Louisville Metro Police told WLKY the U.S. Secret Service is investigating this case. The Secret Service said as a matter of policy, they do not comment on open cases, even to confirm there is one. An owner of O’Shea’s Irish…
Category: Breach Incidents
Missing Student Records From Chattanooga State
Karen Zatkulak reports: Nearly two thousand students records from Chattanooga State are missing. Administrators there tell us the company hired to scan the documents, mishandled them. The school says this is not the first time this company hired to protect information did the opposite. They say it’s the same business who dumped medical documents from…
Credit card data stolen from parking kiosk at Goldstream park
Amy Dove reports: People who enjoyed a day at Goldstream Provincial Park this month are now at risk of credit card fraud. A parking ticket dispenser closest to the entrance of Goldstream park was vandalized between April 17 and 18. The electronic storage device that records credit card information was stolen. The machine hadn’t been…
Telstra confirms customer data breach
Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has patched a data breach on its business website that had the potential to reveal personal information, such as date of birth, of 700 customers. Telstra confirmed to ZDNet Australia yesterday afternoon that the only details that could be sighted without the need to log-in were the name, address and account…
Photocopier Hard Drive Exposes Tommy Bahamas Restaurant
Michael Rey reports: In just one day the CBS affiliate station KPHO in Phoenix was able to replicate the type of results of our investigation into the documents saved on the hard drives of digital copiers. […] No surprise that they found something. A lot of somethings. This time the sensitive documents were from a…
TJX Adds Again To Its Breach Cost, But It Doesn’t Really Matter
Evan Schuman writes: With TJX having suffered well more than $47 million in out-of-pocket expenses from its infamous data breach (announced in 2006 but beginning as early as 2003), the $20 billion retailer is preparing to write still more checks. It has now set aside another $23.5 million for additional anticipated breach costs, according to…