Tara Mapes reports: A District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has tossed all 13 counts in data breach case against a grocery store, noting the plaintiffs were too general in their allegations. The Community Bank of Trenton, University of Illinois Employees Credit Union, First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana, and Southpointe Credit Union…
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Nets data breach puts 100,000 cards at risk
Alex Hamilton reports: Danish payments processor Nets has been hit by a data breach that could have left up to 100,000 credit cards at risk of fraud. The firm, which was floated last month, has linked the breach to a third-party internet retailer based overseas. The processor has notified local banks and suggested they begin…
Help Us Tell Telly That They Have Exposed 8M Subscribers!
RBS writes: We need your help to contact an organization that has thus far been unresponsive to numerous notifications that we have sent about a discovered data breach! Read on to understand the issue and see how you can help! We know that we have become a bit of a broken record when it comes to…
IES users’ data leaked due to ‘inadequate’ security measures: PDPC
Kelly Ng reports: The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) could have “easily detected” and patched security flaws on its website, which had resulted in more than 6,000 users’ personal data being comprised in a data leak in October 2014, said the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) in findings on the incident that it released publicly…
SG: Fined for leaking 8,000 people’s personal data
K.C. Vijayan A printing firm hired by an insurance company sent erroneous account statements to policyholders that resulted in more than 8,000 people having their personal data leaked. The data breach by Toh-Shi Printing Singapore was its second such infringement and it was fined $25,000 last month by the Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore (PDPC)…
Whoops: Pro-Donald Trump super PAC publishes donor credit card numbers
Dave Levinthal reports: A pro-Donald Trump super PAC needs to make its accounting practices great again — if they ever were in the first place. Great America PAC on Thursday night erroneously published the credit card numbers and expiration dates belonging to 49 donors, a Center for Public Integrity review of its latest Federal Election Commission campaign finance disclosure…