John Oates reports: Travelodge is investigating its IT systems to discover how customer email addresses have gone astray. The Reg was contacted this morning by a reader who was receiving spam emails to a unique email address he had only given to Travelodge. Several other customers have blogged of similar experiences, here’s Shepy’s post on the apparent…
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Hackers break into computer system at Conor O’Neills Irish pub in Ann Arbor, steal credit card info
Ann Arbor police say hackers broke into the computer system of a popular Irish restaurant, stealing numerous credit card and debit card numbers to make purchases. The case came to light after the credit and debit cards were fraudulently used in the state of Texas between April 22 and June 10, police said. Local banks…
Canada official: Staples resold hard drives with customer data
Galen Moore reports: …. According to Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, the breaches affected laptop computers and flash drives, and compromised sensitive information including Social Insurance Numbers, and health card and passport numbers; academic transcripts; banking information and tax records. An audit conducted by Stoddard’s office examined 149 data storage devices marked for resale, and…
Debit Breach Hits Ohio Accounts
Jeffrey Roman reports: June 21 Update: The recent breaches that affected dozens of Northeast Ohio banks and credit unions were most likely caused by the interception of CVV2 card security codes, says Mike Urban, senior director of fraud product management at FICO. “It’s not a skimming situation,” Urban says of the breaches which started in…
Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours
Jeremy Kirk reports: Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password authentication for its 25 million users for four hours on Monday — although “much less than 1%” of those accounts were accessed during the period, the company said. It is still investigating whether any of those accounts were improperly accessed. Dropbox CTO Arash Ferdowsi wrote…
Hackers claim 177K e-mails from Sony Pictures France
Erica Ogg reports: Sony’s turn as the whipping boy for Internet hackers continued over the weekend. Two hackers posted a list of e-mails they say they took from the Sony Pictures France Web site. The two hackers who claim responsibility are a Lebanese student who goes by the handle Idahc, and a French friend of his…