Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this year, hackers broke into the networks of marketing and press release distribution service PR Newswire, making off with usernames and encrypted passwords that customers use to access the company’s service and upload news releases, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The stolen data was found on the same Internet servers that housed huge troves of…
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Insurer’s data breach lawsuit against Schnucks is terminated
E.B. Solomont reports that Liberty Mutual Insurance’s lawsuit against Schnuck’s has been dropped.
News Corp Australia statement
Seen on The Australian, but not on News Corp Australia’s web site: This afternoon News Corp Australia was made aware of a vulnerability in the security of our email newsletter database. Some personal information about people who subscribe to our email newsletters was potentially accessible from outside the company. The information does not include credit…
Man charged in TSYS identity theft violated computer policy at Paragon Benefits
“If you see something, say something” paid off in this case. Adam Carlson reports: A week after he was placed at Paragon Benefits Inc. by a temporary staffing agency, Drew Johnson appeared to be spending more time on his computer than his duties required before personal information from more than 5,200 TSYS employees was sent…
Mass security breach of fast food payment systems in South Africa via variant of Dexter malware (update 1)
Duncan McLeod reports: South Africa’s banks have suffered tens of millions of rand in losses due to a major breach of customer card data by criminal syndicates that infected electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices using a variant of malicious software called Dexter. It’s not known exactly how many POS devices were infected by the malware, but…
Software Company Tom Sawyer Hacked, 61,000 Vendors Accounts Leaked
LeeJ writes: A hacker who uses the handle Nairb has been on a leaking streak over the past few days and to continue that they have now dumped information from a software based company. Tom Sawyer produces data visualization, layout, and analysis component software that is designed for use by application developers. Nairb has announced the leak from there…