Andra Litton reports: A disgruntled ex-employee of Lucchese Boots plead guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer in federal court after he hacked into the Lucchese computer network after he’d been fired and managed to shut down the company’s e-mail server and application server in the September….
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ShowTix4U Security Breach Notification
ACCOUNT SECURITY NOTICE ShowTix4U recently became aware of a potential security incident possibly affecting the personal information of certain individuals who made a payment card purchase on the ShowTix4U.com website. We are providing this notice as a precaution to inform potentially affected individuals about the incident and to call your attention to some steps you…
American Express, Mastercard fine Rosen Hotel in data breach, lawsuit says
Paul Brinkmann reports: An insurance company for Rosen Hotels & Resorts has filed a lawsuit claiming Rosen is not covered for more than $2.4 million in damages related to a data breach announced last year. And the costs could be more than that, if Rosen faces legal claims from customers, according to the lawsuit. […]…
Law Firm Sues Former Lawyer, Alleging He Stole Client Information and Operated His Own Firm on the Side
Brenda Sapino Jeffreys reports: Houston intellectual property and trial firm Matthews, Lawson, McCutcheon & Joseph has sued former lawyer Erik Osterrieder, alleging the patent attorney “stole and secreted off-site in his personal law firm” confidential client information, and in one instance took a client’s information and then set that client up to be represented by…
Important: Notification of data breach on FIRST Forums
As seen on their site today: Dear FIRST® Participant, We wish to inform you of an event that may affect the security of your username and password on our FIRST forums. What happened? On March 6, 2017, FIRST received a report of suspicious activity for two externally hosted websites – the FIRST Forum (forums.usfirst.org) and FIRST…
Vermont Department of Labor details data security breach at third party Vendor
America’s Joblink Alliance – a provider of the nationwide web-based database Joblink, which is used by the State of Vermont – has notified the State that the job seeker functionality of its website was compromised by a malicious software. The Joblink system, which is also used by nine other states, is a standalone system and…