Ferris State University in Oregon is notifying current and prospective employees and students after a malware injection may have exposed their personal information. In a letter submitted to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, John Urbanick, CTO at the university, explained that the university became aware of the breach on July 23. They do not explain…
Category: Malware
Dutch DNS server ‘hack’: Thousands of sites serve up malware
Martin Gijzemijter reports: Thousands of Dutch websites served up malware this week after what was initially thought to be a DNS server hack at SIDN, the Dutch administrator of the .nl domain extension. On Monday, the website of large Dutch online electronics retailer Conrad.nl was reportedly found to be serving malware, and was taken down…
OR: Computer virus blamed for Sandy credit card fraud cases
KATU reports: The reason for why about 30 people had their credit card and debit card numbers stolen in sandy: A computer malware or virus apparently infected a local merchant’s computer, police say. Investigators believe the business is Sandy’s Dairy Queen, but are still looking into other potential compromised businesses, such as the Fred Meyer…
Quayside breach update
It seems that the breach notification letter received by residents of New Hampshire may have contained more information than the letter received by Vermont residents. In a letter dated June 21 (the same date as the letter quoted here), Quayside added a statement that there were 639 orders affecting 532 customers, from all areas combined,…
St. Mary’s Bank notifies more than 115,000 customers after malware infection discovered
St. Mary’s Bank is a state-chartered community-based credit union in New Hampshire. On May 26, they discovered that one of their workstations was infected with malware that could have captured anything displayed on the screen. A forensic investigation discovered that 23 workstations could have been infected with the malware as early as February 2013. Although…
Restaurant’s lawsuit against Micros Systems goes to trial Monday
Cotton Patch Cafe‘s lawsuit against Micros goes to trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Monday. I had posted some of the background on this case back in July 2011, here. The restaurant sued Micros after it was hacked and customers’ credit card information was stolen. Now Gary Haber reports: The lawsuit alleges that…