The Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection has posted notice of a breach that occurred on January 15, 2009 when DOC Electric assets were auctioned off by M&I Bank and a local auction house. Apparently the computers and file cabinets contained personal information on DOC Electric employees who were employed from the start of the business…
Category: Business Sector
Kohl’s Cashier Accused Of Customer Credit Card Fraud
Kohl’s is reimbursing two customers after learning an employee illegally used customer credit cards to buy gift cards. Source – CFNews
Consumer Electronics Company Agrees to Settle Data Security Charges; Breach Compromised Data of Hundreds of Consumers
An online seller of computer supplies and other consumer electronics has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable security to protect sensitive customer data. According to the FTC’s complaint, Compgeeks.com (Compgeeks), which operates the www.geeks.com Web site, and its parent company, Genica Corporation (Genica), collect…
phpBB hacked, 400,000+ account details intercepted
The online bulletin board phpBB (php Bulletin Board) was taken offline on Sunday, following a security breach that allowed access to user account details. phpBB is an open-source software package used to run discussion forums on web sites. The breach was caused when the attacker gained access through an unpatched security bug in PHPlist, a…
DE: Guilty plea entered in debit data theft
Sean O’Sullivan reports: One of two co-defendants in a complicated debit-card skimming operation that took in more than $500,000 from at least 70 victims pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington. […] According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilana H. Eisenstein, Grigoryan and Harutyunyan placed a skimmer device inside a keypad at Rite Aid…
NameDrive Breached, Less Than 1% of Accounts Affected
E-mail addresses and passwords for a limited number of NameDrive customers were obtained and posted in a hacker forum this month. The security breach just came to light today. NameDrive has responded by instituting new security measures including password resets: We were alerted of a possible security breach affecting less than 1% of our accounts,…