Mike Benner reports on KGW: When it comes to Oregon’s delicacies there is not much that Made In Oregon does not sell. Its warehouse in Northeast Portland is stocked with everything you can imagine. “These shelves will be empty by December 18,” said company vice president Verne Naito. This is the busiest time of the year for…
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Witchery pulls mobile site after customer details exposed
Sarah Michael reports: Witchery has shut down its mobile website after it was hit with a security breach that exposed customers’ personal details and orders. A glitch in the “track my order” function for online shopping opens personal details pages of other customers, and even allows them to edit the information. It also allows them…
Vodafone Iceland breached, customer details, SMSes stolen
Michael Lee reports: Vodafone Iceland is now in the middle of an investigation into how its website was attacked and customer data information, including SMS messages, were leaked to the public. On November 30, the company’s Icelandic website was defaced by attackers and subsequently taken offline. At the time, Vodafone did not believe that any…
AHW reports online stores compromised by malware
AHW LLC in Illinois operates a number of online stores. In May, and as noted previously on this blog, they notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that Green Fun Store (greenfunstore.com) had apparently been comprised during the fourth quarter of 2012. They were alerted to the breach in March by their credit card vendor, Evalon,…
MD: Sensitive info found in now-defunct law group’s dumpster
A now-defunct law firm gets itself bad press for insecurely disposing of client files: We’re not in the habit of picking through the trash, but sometimes we’re willing to get our hands dirty, especially when we hear your information has been tossed aside like it’s worthless. We went digging in a Baltimore County dumpster after…
QuizUp security flaw sends your personal data to other players
You may want to hold off on playing popular trivia game QuizUp, as the game may be sending your personal information to other players. This security and privacy flaw was detected by developer Kyle Richter and described in a recent blog. According to Richter, the QuizUp game sends your personal information to other players via…