The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has received a preliminary report on the findings of its inspection team following an inspection today at Loyaltybuild, the company at the centre of the recent data breach. The inspection team confirmed the extent of the breach in which the full card details of over 376,000 customers…
Category: Breach Incidents
IE: Data breach on driver licence website investigated
Over on Twitter, Brian Honan just noted that two infosec stories led the evening news in Ireland tonight. One of them surely must be the Loyaltybuild/Supervalu breach, reported previously on this blog. I suspect this is the other one: The Road Safety Authority has confirmed that a data breach has occurred on the website for…
Adobe customer files potential class action lawsuit after breach
From the it-was-inevitable-department: A customer in California has filed a potential class action lawsuit against Adobe Systems in federal court for the Northern District of California. It appears to be the first one filed, although I’m pretty sure it won’t be the last. In any event, it’s worth a blog post at least. I know,…
FL: Jacksonville Tax Return Consultant Arrested For Involvement In Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
A 14-count indictment charging Deangelo Parker with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft was announced last week in Florida. If convicted, Parker faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each of the seven counts of wire fraud and two years’ maximum imprisonment for each aggravated identity theft offense. Parker made his…
Diapers.com goes above and beyond to protect customers (update 3)
A Diapers.com customer kindly sent me a copy of the e-mail he received from them today: From: Diapers.com <customercare@diapers.com> Date: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM Subject: An Important Message Regarding Your Account To: [redacted] Hello [redacted] This is an important message from Diapers.com At Diapers.com we take your security and privacy very seriously….
Final Warning to Anonymous Indonesia From Anonymous Australia re: #OpAustralia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYLq5HpYFwM Well its come to this, Australian Anons have tonight released a video that is set as a final warning to the Indonesian hackers over on going cyber attacks on Australian private sites. Anonymous Australia tonight made the following video explaining that they do not want a cyber war with fellow anons and have once…