This site has previously noted the hack and subsequent extortion demands affecting Casino Rama in Ontario, including the dump of some of their data when they did not pay the extortion demand. Now Daniel Thompson reports: An Ontario-based casino which has been facing a class-action lawsuit would have to hand over a computer forensics investigation…
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Ticketmaster investigates potential data security breach
Jackie Fox reports: Ticketmaster Ireland has notified customers about a potential breach of security compromising their payment details. Anyone who bought a ticket from the site between February and June 2018 could be at risk. In an email to customers this evening, the ticketing website said malicious software was identified on a customer support product hosted by…
New Zealand’s Z Energy Flags Possible Data Breach in November
Ambar Warrick reports: New Zealand-based fuel supplier Z Energy Ltd on Wednesday said it has been presented with evidence that customer data from its Z Card Online database was accessed by a third party in November 2017. The database held customer data such as names, addresses, registration numbers, vehicle types and credit limits with the company,…
Hacker hits local mattress store with ransomware
Cameron Poitras reports: A local mattress and furniture supply store was forced to pay a hacker who shut down its servers, effectively putting a halt to services and sales there. Best Sleep Centre was hit by the hacker earlier this month with ransomware, asking for 0.6 of a bitcoin or about $6,000 Canadian. Read more…
Prince Hotels hack results in loss of 124,000 customers’ credit card numbers, other data
Chisato Tanaka has more on the FastBooking incident, reported earlier today by BleepingComputer. Prince Hotels Inc., one of the nation’s largest hotel and resort operators, apologized Tuesday after data on 124,963 individuals and groups was stolen by hackers earlier this month. All of the customers had booked rooms through its official foreign-language website. At a…
Hundreds of Hotels Affected by Data Breach at Hotel Booking Software Provider
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details and payment card data of guests from hundreds of hotels, if not more, have been stolen this month by an unknown attacker, Bleeping Computer has learned. The data was taken from FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software to more than 4,000 hotels in 100 countries —as…