Going bankrupt must suck, but screwing your former employees by putting them at risk of ID theft is just not an okay way to handle bankruptcy. J.N. Sbranti reports: It was a filthy job, but 40 workers spent Tuesday picking up papers — including confidential employee records — that had been blowing around an abandoned…
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Appeals court decision in Hannaford data breach case could signal new approach
Judy Greenwald reports that at least one lawsuit against Hannford Bros following their 2007 breach is still alive: An appeals court’s decision to permit negligence and contract putative class action litigation to proceed in a grocery store chain data breach because of the alleged damages incurred could signal a change in courts’ approach to this…
CheapTickets.nl database with 715,000 customers’ personal information and 80,000 passport numbers leaky due to “stale” security
The following is via Google’s translation of what Brenno de Winter reported: … leaked CheapTickets.nl a database of 715,000 customers. Attackers did not just names but also tickets and passport numbers. It found a source that reported on condition of anonymity. He discovered that the Windows Server 2003 environment, not all patches were rotated. Because…
Korean hacker awaiting deportation
A Korean who hacked into a communication company’s database and downloaded data of its 40,000 customers is currently awaiting deportation to Seoul, the Bureau of Immigration said. Shin Un-sun, 37, has been apprehended last October 5 in a popular shopping center in San Juan City by the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group…
El Reg in SHOCK email address BLUNDER
Say it ain’t so, Joe! The Register has disclosed their own data breach – an e-mail gaffe: Between 8:58 and 10:20 this morning we sent an email to 3,521 of you that contained the names and email addresses of 46,524 of our readers. Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the…
Seoul Matchmaker’s Hard Drive Stolen, 1500 Affected
AlertBoot reports on a case for which I find no English-language media coverage, so I’m quoting their summary of the breach: Matchmakers in Korea require a lot of information to find out if people are compatible, as must be the case for matchmakers around the globe. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the…