It seems it isn’t all over for a lawsuit by nine financial institutions against Heartland Payment Systems following a mammoth breach disclosed in January 2009. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s dismissal of negligence claims and remanded. Here’s part of the opinion, issued yesterday: Turning to the case sub judice, we hold the…
Category: Breach Incidents
7GB data Leaked from Azerenergy, Azerbaijan’s largest electrical power producer
Once again anonymous hacktivist have announced another leak of data from the Azerbaijan government and more so its largest electrical power producer . The leak which is said to be over 7GB of files comes from Azerenergy and has been uploaded to anonfiles in 13 different parts. The announcement of the leaked data was originally posted to cyberguerrilla.org just…
Attorney General Jepsen Reaches Settlement with Citibank on Online Credit Card System Security
Back in June 2011, I noted a breach involving Citibank (previous coverage here and here). There’s now a follow-up to that breach: Citibank N.A. will pay $55,000 to the state of Connecticut and will obtain a third-party data security audit of its online credit card account system under a settlement filed in court today, Attorney…
Dishonest employees can pretty much be found everywhere
Geoff Liesik reports on an insider breach involving an employee of Kneaders Bakery & Cafe in Provo, Utah. Read more here.
ACOA satisfied with security measures despite theft of computers
From the probably-shouldn’t-say-that dept.: Yes, laptops that possibly contained personally identifiable information were stolen from our office in a burglary, but we don’t need to strengthen our security measures, says the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
Why @An0nGhost Twitter Hack Claims Are False
In recent weeks two other sites have fall for what i am calling out as a fake and false leaks of twitter data. The leaks are coming from well known hacker collective @An0nGhost and have so far proven to be nothing but shady as explained below. **First twitter leak:**Link: https://www.techworm.in/2013/08/twitter-hacked-thousand-of-account.html Reason why its fake: content was…