Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Michael Riley report: The hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) set off alerts on the company’s security systems about 60,000 times as they slunk through the network, according to an internal company investigation. The hackers moved unnoticed in the company’s computers for more than eight months, sometimes…
Category: Business Sector
PA: Company claims info was stolen
Joe Pinchot reports: A Pine Township company has filed a civil racketeering and conspiracy suit alleging an ex-employee downloaded company information, including customer lists, software instructions and internal drawings, and gave the information to his new employer, a competing firm. Pine Instrument Co.’s ex-employee, Gordon Baker, said he downloaded the information while still employed by…
Study shows recycled computers give away personal information
A study commissioned in Australia by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), a non-profit, data protection watchdog agency, has found significant amounts of personal information left on recycled computers. For the organisations recycling their drives, this is a data breach problem. For individuals, their most private information is at risk. The NAID-ANZ Secondhand Hard…
FL: Data from 342 credit cards found on Hernando skimmers
Meanwhile, in Brooksville, Florida, Erik Waxler reports: The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office just got back an analysis on the four skimmers they found this week at the Hess gas station on Cortez Boulevard and Spring Lake Highway. On those devices — 342 credit card numbers and the names to go with them. “At this time…
Kenerson Associates notifies employees of breach at payroll processor, BenefitMall
Kenerson Associates in Beverly, Massachusetts is notifying 18 current and former employees whose personal information may have been accessed in a breach involving their payroll processor, Dallas, Texas-based BenefitMall. In a letter dated February 18 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Kenerson incorporated BenefitMall’s January 16th notification letter to Kenerson about the breach. Their report…
MI: Data breach at Tadych’s Econofoods in Marquette
Today February 21, 2014, Tadych’s Econofoods in Marquette, MI announced between January 8, 2014 and February 17, 2014 that various customers’ credit card and/or debit card information may have been compromised and obtained by an unauthorized person or criminal network. Individual card numbers and expiration dates may have been accessed – but not the cardholder’s…