Shannon P. Duffy reports: Finding there was no more than speculative injury, a federal judge has dismissed a class action suit against Aetna Inc. filed in the wake of news that the insurer’s computer database may have been hacked and that personal data of up to 450,000 job applicants were potentially at risk. In Allison…
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2 state web sites hacked in Hawaii
Sean Hao reports: The state has temporarily taken down two procurement-related Web sites following a security breach that exposed the user names and passwords of hundreds of state and county employees. State Comptroller Russ Saito said the Web sites were hacked earlier this week by someone in Romania. No financial information was compromised and it…
Westin Bonaventure restaurants and valet parking hacked
Another POS hack in the hospitality industry. From their press release: Officials of The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites which is independently owned by Today’s IV, Inc. and operated by Interstate Hotels & Resorts, Inc. under a license issued by Westin Hotel Management, L.P. announced that the hotel’s four restaurants—Lake View Bistro, Lobby Court Bar,…
(update 2) Only Wyndham-branded hotels involved in three breaches
Yesterday, Robert McMillan provided more detail on the most recent Wyndham Hotel and Resort chain breach: Wyndham operates over 7,114 hotels worldwide, including Ramada, Days Inn and Super 8. Just how many hotels were hit by this latest attempt was unclear, however. Until today. The company just released a statement saying that 37 hotels were…
HOW many years of free credit alerts?
I don’t know if this is some kind of record, but the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission is notifying people who were affected by the security breach reported in January that they can get an additional 7 years of fraud victim alerts on their credit reports at no charge. The story’s here. Does anyone remember…
Authorities bust 3 in infection of 13M computers (update 2)
Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs. The “botnet” of infected computers included PCs inside more than half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and more than 40 major banks, according to…