Update: I think we need to forget about this story’s claim of guests being locked in rooms, etc. This now appears to be fake news based on a report from a site that is not a reputable news site. I’m not sure about another site that carried the story of ransomware but without the bit about guests…
Category: Business Sector
Payroll service mistakenly ships packages with W-2 records to wrong address — twice
It’s worrying that once again, criminals are successfully tricking employees into emailing employees’ W-2 data to them. But how about when a company just mails out W-2’s to the wrong address – and not once, but twice? The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Paychex, a payroll service, has twice shipped scores of confidential salary records and other documents to…
Telemarketing Company Leaks Nearly 400K Consumer Files
MacKeeper’s Security Research Center reports: Researchers from the MacKeeper Security Research Center have made one of the biggest discoveries to date with several hundred thousand files publically available. The files belong to a controversial Florida based marketing company VICI Marketing LLC and include thousands of audio recordings where customers give their names, addresses, phone number,…
Investors Sue Yahoo Over Post-Hack Stock Plunge
I don’t think investors’ lawsuits related to data breaches have been a particularly winning strategy to date, but if any investors’ suit has a chance, this one might – or at least, should have a chance. Maria Dinzeo reports that those who invested in Yahoo! are suing the company: A proposed class of hundreds of thousands…
NYS A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Acer After Data Breach Exposed More Than 35,000 Credit Card Numbers
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Acer Service Corporation (“Acer”), a computer manufacturer based in Taiwan, after a data breach of its website exposed over 35,000 credit card numbers. An investigation by the A.G.’s office revealed that sensitive Acer customer information was not protected by Acer for almost…
Delhi hackers, digital shoplifters who tampered data of e-commerce portals
Shiv Sunny reports: Four young hackers have been arrested for allegedly digitally shoplifting vouchers worth Rs92 lakh [$134,985.29 USD] by tampering with the data of e-commerce websites at the payment gateway stage. Two of them are BTech dropouts, one is pursuing engineering while the other is a BCA from Delhi University, police said. Calling it…