Kimberly King reports: A local restaurant reports a security breach affecting its customers. Hackers tapped into the credit card machines at Marco’s, stealing credit and debit card numbers from several customers, wiping out their bank accounts. Like any weeknight at Marco’s Restaurant, owner Mark Poulos was busy with loyal customers who’ve been coming there for…
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Digital River sues over data breach
Dan Browning reports: A massive data theft from the e-commerce company Digital River Inc. has led investigators to hackers in India and a 20-year-old in New York who allegedly tried to sell the information to a Colorado marketing firm for half a million dollars. The Eden Prairie company obtained a secret court order last month…
Brew HaHa! breach no laughing matter
To follow up on a potential class-action lawsuit against POSitouch and its reseller, CC Productions , DataBreaches.net spoke with the founder of Brew HaHa!, one of the clients in the possible lawsuit. Brew HaHa! is a 10-store espresso chain in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and the breach has not been previously reported anywhere. Another client, who…
Flight school employee sentenced for debit card fraud
Troy Caleb Wood, 37, of Oregon City, Oregon, and formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for access device fraud, the U. S. Attorney’s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge also ordered Wood to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and to pay…
UK: Hack attack targets 4.3 million online CVs
Stewart Mitchell reports: The personal details of 4.3 million job seekers may have been compromised in a “concerted and sophisticated” hack attack on Trinity Mirror’s recruitment sites. According to Trinity Mirror, no actual CV details were exposed during the attack on sites such as Planet Recruit and JobSearch, even though the company believes email address…
FL: AT&T Info Dumped In Local’s Recycle Bin
As I noted earlier this month in discussing ABC’s coverage of firms just dumping paper records without shredding them, Florida law doesn’t seem to prohibit such disposal. Now there’s another story out of Florida, this one covered by News4Jax, that also involves improper disposal of personal and financial information on hundreds of people: Jessica Menendez…