On July 30, 2014, Delaware River and Bay Authority (“the Authority”) was notified of a possible security compromise involving credit and debit card data stored on certain systems at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry‘s terminals and vessels. An investigation into this incident was immediately initiated and our team, including third-party forensics experts, has been working continuously to understand…
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Private Investigator And Former NYPD Officer Arrested In Bribery Scheme To Obtain Reports From Federal Law Enforcement Database
Press release issued today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City…
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…
Wyndham Execs Escape Derivative Suit Over Cyberattacks
Beth Winegarner reports that a shareholder’s lawsuit filed against Wyndham over its data breaches has been dismissed: A New Jersey federal judge on Monday threw out a Wyndham Worldwide Corp. shareholder’s derivative action over a series of security breaches, finding no evidence that Wyndham’s Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys had a conflict of interest when…
Russia ruled out as culprit in Chase cyber security breach, U.S. officials say
And THIS is why I don’t jump on all on the early allegations. Jim Finkle reports: The Russian government has been ruled out as sponsor of a cyber attack on JPMorgan Chase & Co disclosed in August, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Monday. Read more on Reuters.
Grim statistics: Officials warn 500 million financial records hacked within past 12 months
Erin Kelly reports: Federal officials warned companies Monday that hackers have stolen more than 500 million financial records over the past 12 months, essentially breaking into banks without ever entering a building. “We’re in a day when a person can commit about 15,000 bank robberies sitting in their basement,” said Robert Anderson, Jr., executive assistant…