SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Although it has no confirmation that personal information was acquired without authorization, Tomo Drug Testing (“Tomo”) in Springfield, Missouri announced today that it has taken action after becoming aware of an incident in which an unknown third party gained access to a database storing customer information. Out of an…
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NY: Joint Statement from the Town of Crawford Police Department and the Pine Bush Central School District
September 26, 2019 Joint Statement from the Town of Crawford Police Department and the Pine Bush Central School District On the morning of Thursday, Sept. 26, the Pine Bush School District and the Town of Crawford Police were alerted that someone had successfully hacked the posting for Crispell Middle School on a popular computer program…
NYS Attorney General James Sues Dunkin’ Donuts For Glazing Over Cyberattacks Targeting Thousands
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a lawsuit against Dunkin’ Brands, Inc. — franchisor of Dunkin’ Donuts — for failing to protect thousands of customers targeted in a series of cyberattacks. The company failed to notify nearly 20,000 customers that their accounts had been compromised, even though their information and personal funds were in…
DoorDash confirms breach impacting 4.9 million
It was almost exactly one year ago that this site pointed readers to a report by Zack Whittaker that dozens of DoorDash customers were claiming that their accounts had been hacked. As Zack reported at the time, DoorDash denied any breach of their system. Fast-forward one year and Zack reports that DoorDash has confirmed it…
Polish data protection authority issues €645,000 fine to online retailer
Jessica Belton reports: Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) this week imposed a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) fine on online retailer Morele.net for “insufficient organisational and technical safeguards”. The data breach affected approximately 2.2 million customers who purchased products through one of the group’s nine websites. Read more on IT Governance.
Anonymous researcher drops vBulletin 5.x zero-day impacting tens of thousands of sites
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An anonymous security researcher has published details about a zero-day in vBulletin, today’s most popular internet forum software. Because of this individual’s actions, security experts are now concerned that the publication of details about this unpatched vulnerability could trigger a wave of forum hacks across the internet, with hackers taking over forum…