Peter Whittlesea reports: A US firm used by the government to cut tax credit payments has suffered a data protection breach, it is claimed. Facebook campaign group Concentrix Mums believe around 100 claimants have been sent information such as bank statements, self assessment details and National Insurance numbers of others. A Concentrix spokesperson said: “We…
Category: Business Sector
Alerted by law enforcement: Vera Bradley discloses payment card security breach
Vera Bradley, Inc. announced that it has taken action to investigate and address an incident affecting payment card data used at its retail stores. Payment cards used at Vera Bradley store locations between July 25, 2016 and September 23, 2016 may have been affected. Not all cards used in stores during this time frame were affected….
Modern Business Solutions’ leaky bucket provided a field day for downloaders
Update of Oct. 18: a vendor on the dark web has seemingly put the database up for sale for $200. The listing says: 58,848,308 ModBSolutions.com no passwords Business 2016-10 contains field “email”,”gender”,”zip,”state”,”city”,”address”,”last_name”,”first_name”,”updatedate”,”job” Note that MBS never responded to my courtesy notification, never responded to a request for a statement as to what they were doing in…
UK: Student found guilty of hacking firm’s emails
David Parker reports: A university student has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 compensation after he hacked the emails of a garden furniture company and targeted one of its customers. Moshood Olawale Abolade, 26, of Hatchets Lane, Newark, had denied fraud by false representation. He was found guilty after a trial at Nottingham Magistrates’…
Joint DHS and ODNI Election Security Statement
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, DC 20511 October 07, 2016 Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US…
Man arrested for streaming porn to electronic billboard
AP reports on this story out of Indonesia: Indonesian police say a man they arrested for broadcasting pornography on an electronic billboard in the country’s capital gained access to the system after it displayed its log-on credentials. Jakarta Police Chief Muhammad Iriawan said Wednesday that the suspect, 24-year-old Samudera Al Hakam Ralial, admits he hacked…