One of the victim companies of a W-2 phishing attack that this site reported in 2017 was a New York firm called Taconic Biocences. A copy of their notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is still available online, here. Recently, News10 in New York reported that there has been a $2.7 million settlement in…
Category: Business Sector
Credit Info Exposed in TransUnion Canada Data Security Incident
Lawrence Abrams reports: An unauthorized person was able to gain access to a TransUnion Canada web portal and use it to pull consumer credit files. This was done by using credentials stolen from a TransUnion customer who had access to the portal. BleepingComputer has learned that starting last week TransUnion Canada began sending out data security…
Hibiscus Petroleum suffers cyber attack
Mark Lammey reports: Hibiscus Petroleum said today that its IT system was “subjected to an attack” last week. The Malaysian firm said the affected parts of the system were isolated and partially shut down. Hibiscus said the system was gradually being restored and that production operations had not been impacted. Read more on Energy Voice. …
IN: Senior account manager arrested in Bengaluru
Kiran Parashar reports that 40-year-old senior account manager with a multinational software firm has been arrested and charged with stealing the firm’s employee information and client data. Although the Times of India report names the man, they do not name the victim company, his former employer, and the name of the firm does not appear…
ED can withhold names of tax evaders in Panama Papers: Central Information Commission
PTI reports: The names of alleged tax evaders appearing in the Panama Papers leak can be withheld by the Enforcement Directorate from disclosure, the Central Information Commission has held. The Commission made these observations while deciding the plea of Durga Prasad Choudhary who did not get a satisfactory response from the agency on his RTI…
McAlisters Deli, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky’s Notice of Data Breach to Consumers
October 2, 2019 Notice of Payment Card Security Incident California residents please click here McAlister’s Deli values the relationship we have with our customers and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. We initially notified our customers on August 20, 2019 that we were investigating a payment card security incident involving some of our…