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UK: Tesco call centre worker fined over customer data breach

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

So what do you think the penalty/fine should be for an employee wilfully emailing themselves customer data that they had no business copying and taking?  Jail time? A monetary penalty? Community service? Keep in mind that the defendant had to return from Lithuania to be sentenced. Sounds serious, right? BBC reports that Thomas Wengierow, 47,  who…

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O’Charley’s suffers payment card network compromise, notifies customers

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

Dave Williams reports: Diners who ate at an O’Charley’s restaurant between March 18 and April 8 may have been affected by a data breach, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens warned Friday. Read more on Atlanta Business Chronicle. O’Charley’s statement, posted today on their web site, explains what happened and offers tips for guests to protect themselves. It appears that…

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A second inadequately secured Mexican voter list exposes data on more than 2 million voters

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery writes: This is just a quick note to explain that I discovered another publicly exposed Mexican database on Wednesday, May 20th. I reported it to the Mexican electoral authority (INE) that same day. Today, INE held a press conference and reported that the database has been taken offline. Their initial…

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Insider breach – Shapeshift’s story

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

@SwiftonSecurity kept telling everyone on Twitter that we #MUSTREAD the story of what happened at Shapeshift.io. And with good reason: it’s a phenomenal account of an insider breach told with the kind of refreshing honesty that’s often missing in most breach disclosures.  It also reads like a thriller. I’m going to give readers a different…

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Court rejects Jetro’s argument in attempt to recoup fines and penalties over breaches

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

Long-time readers will remember the Restaurant Depot/Jetro breaches reported in 2011 and 2012. It appears that Jetro tried a novel approach to recovering some of the monies the breach cost them. As Dennis S. Klein, Jeffrey B. Goldberg, and Tyler Grove of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP explain, the court wasn’t buying their novel argument: … To allow its customers to…

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Noodles & Company Probes Breach Claims

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Noodles & Company, a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach at some locations. Over the past weekend, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources at multiple financial institutions who said they’d detected a pattern of fraudulent…

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