I won’t let this devolve into a debate on who makes the best hamburgers, but Five Guys Enterprises, LLC is notifying its employees about a data breach that affects them. According to a copy of its notification letter, submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office on November 2: On August 6, the firm discovered that…
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Bowker Investigating Breach of ISBN Site
Jim Milliot reports: In a notice posted on its website late last week, R.R. Bowker said it has learned that unauthorized charges were being made on its www.myidentifiers.com website, which is responsible for issuing ISBNs. The company said its preliminary investigation has found that the breach appears to have happened over the course of multiple…
Data leak affects thousands of wealthy Moscow residents
Maria Kolomychenko reports: Thousands of wealthy Moscow residents who subscribed to a regional internet provider have had personal data including names, home addresses and mobile numbers posted online. People affected by the high-profile data leak are all clients of Moscow-based internet provider Akado Telecom, a large telecommunications network owned by billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg, which…
Data breach hits luxury hotels in Tasmania, with guest details at risk of theft by ‘third party’
Tamara Glumac reports: Guests of two of Tasmania’s luxury hotels have been told their personal data “may have been accessed by an unauthorised third party”, with the company — casino giant Federal Group — telling people emails sent from the resorts may be bogus. The company has written to past guests of Hobart’s Henry Jones…
Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale
Andrei Zakharov reports: Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users’ accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical about that figure. Facebook said…
Radisson Rewards confirms data breach
Mark Caswell reports: Radisson Hotel Group has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach on affecting “a small percentage of our Radisson Rewards members”. Business Traveller was alerted to the incident by one of our readers, who had received an email from Radisson confirming that his details had been compromised. Radisson says that it…