Sergiu Gatlan reports: U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal disclosed a security incident involving one of is payment processing systems and affecting some of its restaurants between July and September 2019. […] Krystal says that “the security incident may have involved payment cards processed by a payment processing system used at certain restaurants” and that not…
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Kroger reports ‘isolated incident’ involving pharmacy records
Jason Braverman reports: Kroger announced today that a box of pharmacy records was lost. They said in late July, a records management service, Retrievex, Inc., the company’s business associate, shipped a box of pharmacy records to the Woodstock Kroger via a third-party common carrier. Retrievex confirmed with the carrier that the box was lost in…
Senator Demands Review of How DHS Shares PII With Contractors
Akshaya Asokan reports: Sen. Maggie Hasan, D-N.H. is demanding that the U.S. Government Accountability Office review how the Department of Homeland Security shares personal data with third parties following several recent security incidents in which such information was exposed. In an Oct. 23 letter to the GAO, Hassan writes that recent “troubling” security incidents connected to…
Ransomware hit TrialWorks, law firms and lawyers were not able to access court documents
Pierluigi Paganini reports: TrialWorks, a company that provides the most established and widely used legal case management software solutions, was a victim of a ransomware attack earlier this month. At result of the attack, law firms and lawyers, were not able to access the legal documents hosted on TrialWorks’ platform. Read more on Security Affairs.
Adobe Exposed Data of More Than 7 Million Software Users
Nico Grant reports: Adobe Inc. exposed the data of 7.5 million of its creative-software customers, a person familiar with the matter said, in the latest example of a company leaving consumer information visible on the internet. Adobe addressed the vulnerability the same day it was discovered, Oct. 19, said the person, who asked not to…
CARFAX files lawsuit, alleging data theft
Auto Remarketing reports: According to a news release distributed on Thursday, CARFAX filed a complaint this month as a first step toward stopping businesses from illegally accessing its data. The suit was filed against Patrick K. Willis Company Inc., doing business as American Recovery Service (ARS). CARFAX said ARS is one of several companies that the…