Back in March, I covered a breach involving Lone Star Business Solutions. Now KWCH reports that as a result of their news coverage and a resulting investigation by the Attorney General Derek Schmidt, LS Management, the management firm for Lone Star Steakhouse, will pay a fine of $200,000 – the largest consumer protection fine ever…
Category: Business Sector
Globe and Mail online classroom hacked – again and again? Wake up, Globe and Mail!
Well, I posted this to DataLossDB.org the other day, but seem to have forgotten to have posted it here. Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, had their online classroom site hacked (http://globeclassroom.ca). The hack was disclosed on Pastebin on November 22, at which time I created an entry for it on DLDB. I then tried…
In: Your personal details end up with raddiwalas
Shashank Rao reports: Your phone company knows where you live, your PAN, your employer and even your monthly salary. But wouldn’t you be shocked to find that the details that you provide so trustingly will find its way to a food stall vendor and, from him, to anyone who cares to stop for a bite?…
73,000 Finnish web users’ details hacked
The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said today. “We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks,” police investigator Timo Piiroinen…
Texas realty firm’s renters’ details and payments dumped on Pastebin
Whoa. Maybe all companies should add “check Pastebin” to their daily security to-do list. A series of three data dumps from Carbajal Realty, Inc. in Waco, Texas reveals names, e-mail addresses, rental addresses, and payment info for approximately 625 renters. Here’s a redacted entry: payment_time=2010-07-07 05:57:04 rental_street=xxxx S. 10th Street amount=425.00 phone=214-998-xxxx contact_name=xxxxx_xxxx [email protected] payments_id=479…
101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach
Michael H. Berkens reports: 101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.” According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has around 10,000 domain names under management. Read more on TheDomains.com. From the notification letter: We are writing to you as a primary contact on your account with…