ICG America, which operates a family of retail and e-commerce companies that includes Amazing Clubs, Flying Noodle, MonsterBrew, Games2U, TexasIrons, and California Reds, has joined the ranks of those disclosing hacks involving customer data. In August, ICG America was alerted by a credit card company that their payment processing system appeared to have been attacked….
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Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service
Brian Krebs has a must-read investigative piece about how ssndob.ms – an underground marketplace selling oodles of usable personal information (some of which we saw earlier this year on exposed.su) – gained access to major U.S. consumer and business data aggregators to obtain some of the data they were selling. LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, Kroll…
Unique Vintage notifies customers of long-running hack
We are writing to you because of an incident at Unique Vintage. On September 14, 2013 we discovered a data security incident that involved some of your personal information. Unique Vintage is Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (“PCI”) compliant and implements the latest measures reasonably possible to protect its customers’ sensitive information. However, the very sophisticated data breach…
Computer server containing Virginia Tech job application info illegally accessed (updated)
Virginia Tech has learned that a computer server in the Department of Human Resources was illegally accessed on August 28, 2013. A VT spokesperson informs DataBreaches.net that the illegal access was from outside the school an IP address in Italy. The server contained information about 144,963 individuals who used the institution’s online employment application process…
Kierkegaard & Perry Labs report hack through a “known bug” in their platform
I think it would be fair to say that Kierkegaard & Perry Labs, Inc’s breach notification to Maryland in July impressed me somewhat unfavorably. KPL was reporting a hack that had compromised some customers’ names, addresses, and credit card numbers with expiration dates and CVV codes. Their investigation revealed that 8 customers’ information was acquired (not…
Equity Trust Company hacked from overseas IP addresses
A breach involving Equity Trust Company in South Dakota also flew under the media radar this year, it seems. In a letter dated April 16 to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, Michael Dea, President of the Ohio-headquartered firm, writes that at the end of January, they discovered that part of their network had been accessed…