In reading a lot of the coverage of Experian’s breach affecting those who applied for T-Mobile USA accounts, I noticed that some journalists and others seemed to interpret Experian’s statement as indicating that the data were hacked/accessed over a two-year period (from September 2013 to September 2015). As I noted to a commenter earlier today,…
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Scottrade Breach Hits 4.6 Million Customers (Updated)
Brian Krebs reports: Welcome to Day 2 of Cybersecurity (Breach) Awareness Month! Today’s awareness lesson is brought to you by retail brokerage firm Scottrade Inc., which just disclosed a breach involving contact information and possibly Social Security numbers on 4.6 million customers. In an email sent today to customers, St. Louis-based Scottrade said it recently heard…
FTSE heads for weekly rise but Experian drops on US data breach
It’s always interesting to see if a company’s stock prices take any hit from a breach. Nick Fletcher reports on The Guardian: Leading shares are moving higher ahead of the US jobs data, with banks boosted by news of a deadline being set for consumers to claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance. But Experian has dropped more…
AU: Retailer David Jones reports online breach
The Australian reports: Up-market retailer David Jones says its website has been hacked and private customer data stolen, a day after a similar attack on Kmart’s wesbite. David Jones said today that it recently learned that a third party exploited a vulnerability in its website to extract limited information about some of our customers. The information obtained includes names,…
American Bankers Association notifies 6,400 to reset passwords after hack and data dump
So it seems that the American Bankers Association had a breach, although I didn’t see it any mainstream media reports. Marc Hochstein noted the breach in a column he wrote today: American Bankers Association separately said that email addresses and passwords used to make purchases or register for events through its online shopping cart had…
The complaint to FTC about Experian that accomplished… what?
Today, Experian disclosed another data breach. This one affected 15 million customers of T-Mobile USA, for whom Experian hosts consumer data used for credit checks for new accounts. In tweeting my frustration about this latest incident, @emptywheel suggested I post the complaint I filed with the FTC about Experian in 2012. After some thought, I’ve decided…