Leonid Bershidsky reports: The $100 million lawsuit that Mondelez, the maker of Oreos and Cadbury chocolate, has brought against Zurich Insurance Group shows that governments should be more careful about identifying the would-be culprits in putative cyberwars: Such claims can have unintended consequences, and can sometimes harm businesses. […] Mondelez claimed $100 million on its…
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Personal Information Taken From Tax Filing Office Found In North Texas Dumpster
CBS DFW reports: A woman in Mansfield got a call from a man who said he found her personal information in a dumpster. The documents were found in a Mansfield industrial office complex about ten miles from the Liberty Tax Alta Mesa office in Fort Worth where they were filed. The files included bank account…
CVs containing sensitive info of over 202 million Chinese users left exposed online
Catalin Cimpanu reports on another exposed MongoDB installation found by Bob Diachenko of Hacken Proof: The MongoDB instance contained 854GB of data, with 202,730,434 records in total, most of which were CVs for Chinese users. The resumes contained all the sensitive details you might expect to find on a CV, such as full names, home…
Another data breach? Amazon India leaks sellers information in tech error
Yuvraj Malik reports: A month after its global e-commerce site faced a technical glitch that left exposed user data, Amazon has suffered a similar malfunction this time to its India platform. Sources in know of the situation said that a glitch was reported internally last week that exposed some sellers’ private financial information to other…
Neiman Marcus reaches $1.5 million data breach settlement
AP reports: More than 40 state attorneys general have announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach the Dallas-based retailer disclosed in January 2014. The breach exposed customer credit card data at 77 Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. Over a three-month period in 2013, about 370,000 Neiman Marcus credit…
HK: TransUnion in new apology amid leak fear
Jane Cheung reports: TransUnion has been forced to apologize again after it was discovered that unauthorized people could gain access to mortgage information on its website. Despite the apology, it refused to admit that any data leak had occurred, and said it has suspended the online search function and is improving security measures. Neona Wang,…