Malware-laden email from Intuit Financial Services has been reported, but how did this happen? The following was submitted to DataBreaches.net by a reader: From: Intuit Financial Services Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:29 PM To: IFS Clients Subject: Innovation Conference email issue – June 14 Earlier today you received an email from [email protected] with the subject…
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Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico alerts 100,000 members after computer with their financial info stolen from auditor
Uh oh. The Associated Press reports that the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico is notifying about 100,000 active and retired members about a possible security breach after a computer was stolen from an employee of its third-party auditor. The computer may have contained PERA member information including names, addresses, financial institution routing numbers,…
Penn Station breach mushrooms to 80 locations; Heartland Payment and Secret Service investigating
Ruh oh. Tracy Kitten reports: Restaurant chain Penn Station Inc. has upped the number of franchise locations affected by a payments breach to 80, almost double what it originally reported. The breach, which Penn Station says it’s still investigating, is connected to a point-of-sale processing hack that may have exposed credit and debit details, but…
TX: Tilted Kilt pub hit by credit-card hackers
Karen Grace reports: Anyone who has recently grabbed a drink or two at the Tiled Kilt off Loop 1604 might want to check their bank statement. That’s because a sophisticated theft ring hacked into their computer system and is shopping on the East coast with the stolen information. Management is not keeping the crime a…
League of Legends hack confirmed
Add League of Legends to recent hacking victims. Sean Stewart reports: Riot Games confirmed the breach with a post on the League of Legends forums, telling members “we’re sorry to share that hackers accessed some player account information”. The information was stolen from two databases in Europe, EU West and EU Nordic & East. Personal…
FTC Charges EPN and Franklin’s Budget Car Sales Exposed Sensitive Information on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks, Putting Thousands of Consumers at Risk
The FTC has charged two businesses [complaint 1 | complaint 2] with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer to peer file-sharing software to be installed on their corporate computer systems. Settlements with the debt collection business and auto dealer will bar misrepresentations about their privacy, security, confidentiality, and integrity of…