A report by AFP provides another reminder of how costly insider breaches can be: French police have busted a network of mobile phone hackers, a fraud worth millions of euros, and arrested nine people, including employees of cellular phone companies, investigators said Sunday. Three people were still in custody Sunday following the arrests across the…
Category: Business Sector
“Human error” exposed sellers’ names on Etsy.com
Due to an “internal human coding error,” online marketplace Etsy.com exposed over 1,900 sellers’ real names on their website on September 20 instead of their shops’ names. In a post on its website, Chad Dickerson explained: We had an issue in Treasury earlier today where the “full name” field that we gather at seller registration…
(Update) Lincoln golf courses, restaurant sources of credit card leaks
Zach Pluhacek and Cory Matteson provide the latest update to recent reports of card fraud in the Lincoln area: Two Lincoln golf courses and a restaurant say they are the sources of more than 200 credit and debit card numbers stolen recently from Lincoln-area residents. In a news release Friday, Wilderness Ridge golf course and…
ACS:Law Email Database Possibly Leaked onto The Pirate Bay
Thomas Mennecke writes: There appears to have been a serious data security breach on ACS:Law’s website today, as the website’s root directory was temporarily exposed for several hours. One of the files may have been a backup file of the website, which possibly included the firm’s email correspondence of solicitor Andrew Crossley. ACS:Law’s website was…
(update) St. Charles said 30 reports of debit card fraud came from Aldi
The breach previously mentioned on this blog involving some ALDI stores has reportedly affected “hundreds” of individuals. Hal Conick of the St. Charles Republican reports that 30 residents of St. Charles were among those affected.
AU: Security breached as former prostitute pilfers Einfeld police transcript
Oh those pesky contractors. Here’s a case making some waves in Australia because it involves a scandal and failure to run background checks. Natasha Wallace reports: It took a former prostitute just a few days to pilfer sensitive computer files and find what she wanted: the nine-page police interview of the disgraced former judge Marcus Einfeld….