A customer who received this notification via e-mail sent it along to DataBreaches.net. The firm has publicly acknowledged a problem on their Twitter page: Statement on the Cyber-Attack at e-on January 25, 2018 Dear Community of e-on Users — Safeguarding your personal and financial information is one of our top priorities. In late November 2017,…
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Paradise Papers firm tries to prevent further releases of data
Ian Health reports that Appleby, a firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers data leak, has hired a high-profile media lawyer to help block further releases of confidential client data. Health reports: Appleby have maintained that the documents were illegally hacked from their files and have since initiated legal proceedings against the BBC and…
Greenbay employees have bank accounts raided after unpatched server hacked
Fox11 reports a hacking incident in GreenBay, but won’t name the company: Police are investigating after a local business’s computer network was hacked and money and information were stolen. Police did not identify the business. Officers say the hackers used a known vulnerability to get into the company’s computer system. The hackers stole personal information…
Police probing Bell Canada data breach; up to 100,000 customers affected
Brent Lewin of Bloomberg reports: Police are investigating a new data breach at Bell Canada, which says hackers have illegally obtained customer information, primarily subscriber names and e-mail addresses. BCE Inc.-owned Bell confirmed Tuesday that up to 100,000 customers were affected by the hack, which comes about eight months after hackers accessed nearly 1.9 million…
National Stores, Inc. notifies customers that malware may have compromised payment cards
Breach affects payment cards used between July 16 and December 11, 2017 Includes names, payment card numbers, expiry date, and security codes National Stores, Inc., (“National Stores” or the “Company”) announced today that it has been the victim of a malware attack, enabling unauthorized parties to access payment card information. Immediately upon detecting the incident,…
Update on Jason’s Deli breach: 2 million impacted
There’s an update to the Jason’s Deli breach noted previously on this site. As of January 11, the firm posted on its site: On December 22, 2017, Jason’s Deli was notified by payment processors that credit card security personnel had informed it that a large quantity of payment card information had appeared for sale…