An order handed down yesterday by a federal judge in the Southern District of California in In re: SONY GAMING NETWORKS AND CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION gutted much of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Sony over their 2011 PlayStation hack, but allows some important claims to go forward. As background, Judge Battaglia summarized the litigation in the First…
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Is Easton-Bell Sports The Next Shoe Breach Experts Predicted?
J. Price reports: Another US company has revealed a data breach has hit the servers used in conducting e-commerce. Easton-Bell Sports, which makes sports equipment and clothing under the Bell Sports, Blackburn, Easton, Giro and Riddell brands, announced the breach but did not disclose the name of the vendor from whom Easton data was lifted. “(We)…
TN: Debit card info stolen at a Pilot Travel Center
Fox17 reports: There has been a significant security breach at a Pilot Travel Center in Middle Tennessee. Dozens of people are coming forward claiming that someone stole their debit card information. The information has been used to withdraw cash at ATM’s in California and New York. […] FOX 17 News spoke with many victims all…
Starbucks sat on its clear-text password problem for months
Evan Schuman reports: When Starbucks published the new version of its iOS mobile app yesterday to fix its passwords-in-clear-text problem, it demonstrated a seemingly awesome ability to correct a serious security issue in a single day. But was it truly awesome? Not if it knew about the security hole for months. Not if it knew about it before it published the prior iOS app…
KC engineer ‘exposed unencrypted spreadsheet with phone numbers, user IDs, PASSWORDS’
Kelly Fiveash reports: Hull’s dominant telco, KC, is investigating revelations of what appears to be poor handling of the company’s customer data. This comes after a recent sign-up claimed one of its engineers had unwittingly exposed a customer spreadsheet containing the telephone numbers, user IDs and unencrypted passwords of all its subscribers. Read more on…
Missouri Tax Preparer Indicted On Fraud Charges
St. Louis, MO – The owner and operator of a St. Louis County tax preparation service was indicted yesterday for filing false returns and stealing the identities of taxpayers. RONALD SHONIWA, of Florissant, faces one count of theft of government funds for filing 15 tax returns, which generated more than $50,000 in improperly paid refunds, and…