According to its web site, the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R.) was formed in November 2008 by a group of Law Enforcement and Retail Loss Prevention professionals that saw the need for the formation of a partnership. According to a hacker called “Exphin1ty,” however, C.L.E.A.R. is part of the problem with treatment of…
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PA: Hackers Steal Washington Co. Customers’ Credit Card Info
The Secret Service is investigating after several customers of a Washington County restaurant had their credit card information stolen by hackers from overseas. Beginning Dec. 4, Jumpers Junction customers began reporting their credit card information as being stolen. Investigators said each person had recently paid for their food with a credit card at the restaurant….
Four Romanian nationals indicted for hacking Subway and 50 other merchants’ POS systems
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has issued a press release about an indictment that may relate to some breaches involving Subway Restaurant previously reported on this blog. The case was filed May 4, but the indictment has just been unsealed. Four Romanian nationals have been charged in federal court for their alleged participation in an…
Heartland gets most of banks’ claims dismissed over its massive data breach
Bonnie Barron reports that Heartland Payment Systems succeeded in getting a federal court judge to agree to dismiss most of the claims in a consolidated lawsuit filed by nine banks following a massive breach that affected millions of customers. Rosenthal granted the banks leave to amend the dismissed claims for breach of contract, breach of…
Finnish travel service hacked; thousands of users’ passwords and e-mail addresses exposed
Another hack in Finland. A message on the home page of travel site Napsu.fi confirms that they were hacked on December 3 and that a list of registered users, usernames, email addresses and plain-text passwords were leaked. The firm is asking all registered users to change their passwords. From what I’ve seen so far, 11,976 usernames…
MoneyGram Security Breach
Chester Robards reports: A MoneyGram agent in the Bahamas may have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars this weekend as a result of its system being hacked, The Tribune understands. Harvey Morris, managing director of MoneyGram, Omni Transfers, explained that the agent’s system was likely hacked by someone residing outside of the Bahamas. He said…