The Nashville Zoo sent an email alert to patrons warning of a possible breach in security on the zoo’s website that could result in the theft of customers’ credit card information. The email said law enforcement officials alerted zoo officials that reports of unauthorized credit card transactions appear to be connected to the zoo’s website….
Category: Hack
PBS says its website has been hacked for the 2nd time in a month, with little data stolen (but there were lots of data stolen, it seems – Update 3)
Associated Press reports: PBS says its website has been hacked for at least the second time in a month — the latest in a string of intrusions into such sites as Sony, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo and others. PBS spokeswoman Anne Bentley says one section of a website in the Public Broadcasting Service’s collection of sites…
T&T supermarket chain in Canada discloses hack affecting 58,000 customers; issues warning about malware
Seen at InsideToronto.com: The website of Canada’s largest Asian supermarket chain has been hacked. Richmond, BC-based T&T Supermarket Inc, which has three locations in Toronto (two in Scarborough and one in the port lands), advised the public of “unauthorized and illegal intrusions” on its website – www.tnt-supermarket.com – in a June 24 press release. The…
Citigroup Cites $2.7 Million in Customer Losses From Hack
Randall Smith reports: Citigroup Inc. has told government officials that about 3,400 of the customers whose credit-card information was hacked have suffered about $2.7 million in losses, according to people familiar with the matter. The disclosure is the first acknowledgment by the New York company that the May security breach resulted in any losses. Citigroup…
10 days and additional information later…. (BioWare update)
Back on June 14, BioWare learned that they had been hacked. The following day, and as reported here previously, they notified users on their forum that the hack may have compromised “information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts.” Today, 10 days later, my son received…
Citi skimps on “standard” customer monitoring after security breach
Reuters reports: After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates. Citigroup, which had over 360,000 credit card accounts exposed last month, sent letters to affected customers this month with advice on protecting themselves…