Max Mitchell reports: Attorneys representing Wawa customers who potentially had their payment card information exposed to hackers have reached a more than $12 million settlement with the regional convenience store chain, according to court papers in Philadelphia federal court. Read more on Law.com (free sub. required).
Category: Business Sector
Finnish IT Giant Hit with Ransomware Cyberattack
All Tech reports: A big Finnish IT service provider has been hit with a ransomware attack that has compelled the corporation to turn off some products and services and infrastructure in a disruption to shoppers, while it usually takes restoration steps. Norwegian business enterprise journal E24 claimed the attack on Espoo, Finland-primarily based TietoEVRY on…
PA: Colonial Park Realty Co t/a Enders Notifies Customers of Data Breach
Colonial Park Realty Co. (Enders Insurance) issued a press release about a data breach that occurred last April when an employee’s email account was compromised. The breach was discovered on May 7, 2020, and they have been investigating since then, it seems, to find out who was impacted. Enders claims that they are notifying “in…
Food server accused of stealing customers’ credit card information will plead guilty
Manola Morales reports on a case where the criminal activity occurred in 2017: A former food server accused of stealing credit card information from his customers will plead guilty in federal court on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Walter Padua conspired with another man and a woman to skim the credit cards and make purchases. Padua’s attorney…
Inside a ransomware attack on a small trucking company
Nate Tabak reports: George got the email a week after the ransomware attack on the small trucking and logistics company he manages. It contained screenshots from within the firm’s transportation management system, or TMS, the digital nerve center that orchestrates the movement of trucks and freight. The hackers sent the screenshots among other stolen data….
PH: NPC finds data breach in cash-loaning app
Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat has an update on the Cashalo breach, noted previously. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said its initial findings showed data breach on cash-loaning application Cashalo where a certain user was found selling personal information of 3.3 million users. NPC said this following its preliminary probe on the data security issue of Cashalo, which…