The California law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo is notifying clients after a personal laptop belonging to a member of the firm was stolen while the attorney was on the MTS Trolley in downtown San Diego on April 23. Since that time, the firm has been working with law enforcement but, to date, they…
Category: Breach Incidents
Experian sued over Court Ventures-related breach
He beat me to it. 🙂 While I took a break to argue on Twitter about the hacked Jeep story in Wired, Brian Krebs was reporting on a class action lawsuit filed against Experian over the Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch data breach that was covered extensively on both his site and on this site. The lawsuit was…
More escort-related services hacked
Of course, the big news today was the hack of AshleyMadison.com and the potential embarrassment it may cause to those using its services to have affairs. Not to be deterred from his mission, however, @ElSurveillance continued attacking escort-related sites, posting the same message on their home page that he’s posted in the past: Dear Admin and the…
More retailers suspend online photo centers in wake of PNI Digital Media breach
And then there were more. Like Walmart Canada and CVS before it, Costco also suspended its photo center in the wake of a breach of third-party vendor PNI Digital Media: PNI removed a list of its clients after Brian Krebs reported on the list, but Brian notes that other clients are also posting notices: Tescophoto.com posted that it…
UK: Morrisons employee accused of leaking data on 100,000 supermarket staff because he bore a “grudge” against company (updated)
Sometimes it takes a while before we learn the motivation for an insider breach. This week, the motivation in the Morrisons breach was presented in court. The Echo reports: A Morrisons employee from Liverpool posted sensitive, personal data relating to almost 100,000 of the supermarket’s staff on the internet and sent it to newspapers due to a “grudge”, a…
Bulgaria busts ‘Middle East Cyber Army’ hacker
The Sofia Globe reports: A Syrian national living in Bulgaria has been detained in an operation by police and prosecutors against hacker group “Middle East Cyber Army” that allegedly attacked more than 3500 websites around the world, placing messages in English and Arabic regarding the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Read more on The Sofia…