RiskBased Security writes: News reports of websites being hacked and data being leaked has become an all too common occurrence. Most of the press focuses on popular or well known sites, rarely touching on leaks from sites that reside in the recesses of the “deep web” or “dark web”, accessible only by means such as…
Category: Business Sector
KY: Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Stealing $809,205.43 From Victims
Did no one check their bank statements to see that they were having deductions made that they hadn’t approved? Or did they? Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, entered pleas of guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to multiple wire fraud charges…
Woman Claims Rapist Found Her Through Car Dealership
This may be one for the “small breach, big harm” files. Robert Kovacik and Mary Harris report on a lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by a woman who alleges that her rapist got her address and information from a Mercedes car dealership where he worked and where she brought her car for servicing. According to the plaintiff, the…
Experian/Court Ventures/InfoSearch identity theft lawsuit remanded to state court
On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna sent a lawsuit against Experian, Court Ventures, and InfoSearch back to Orange County Superior Court, denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss outright. The case is Patton v. Experian, and I blogged about it when it was first filed last year. I’ve also blogged, in the past, about how outrageous it…
Teen Dating Site Left Underage Users’ Private Messages Exposed To Anyone
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The youth dating site OurTeenNetwork claims to be the “best rated teen dating and social networking site,” created “for the safety of online teen dating and socializing.” But despite those hefty claims and promises, until this week, anyone on the internet could read the private messages exchanged between users, and even impersonate them. All…
Update on Wendy’s breach
Wendy’s issued its first quarter report for 2016 this week, and a section of its press release on the report addresses its data breach: Update on investigation into unusual credit card activity As previously reported, the Company engaged cybersecurity experts earlier this year to conduct a comprehensive investigation into unusual credit card activity at some Wendy’s restaurants….