There’s an update to the breach reported by Hyatt Hotels in December. Joseph Pisani reports: Hyatt said Thursday that it found malicious software in about 250 of its hotels, including five in the Chicago, that may have exposed customers’ credit- and debit-card numbers and other information to hackers. It’s the first time the hotel operator has listed…
Category: Business Sector
JB Autosports customers notified of payment card breach
Jeremy Boysen, President of JB Autosports, Inc is notifying customers who used the subispeed.com and ft86speedfactory.com sites between August 1, 2015 through November 9, 2015, that their payment card data was intercepted during transmission and acquired by an unknown party at a Russian IP address. The breach allowed cyberattackers to intercept customer names, addresses, credit…
Details of 18000 Faithless fans have been stolen in a website hack
Patrick Hinton reports: 18,000 Faithless fans have had their personal details stolen after the dance group’s website was subject to a cyber-attack from hackers. The site’s defences were breached after a piece of malware was uploaded using a technique called an SQL injection, and now the illegally acquired data, including users’ personal e-mail addresses and…
Dell denies any breach, but scammers are in possession of your service tag numbers?
“A number of Dell customers claim to have been contacted by scammers who had access to specific customer information that should have only been available to Dell. The company says it hasn’t been hacked but won’t offer an explanation for the seemingly stolen data.” Well, that doesn’t sound good. Read Bill Snyder’s report on CIO. It…
Simple Yet Effective eBay Bug Allowed Hackers to Steal Passwords
Swati Khandelwal writes that when MLT (@ret2libc on Twitter) responsibly notified eBay of a bug that would allow the theft of eBay users’ passwords via phishing, eBay ignored the problem – until the media came knocking for a statement. Read more on The Hacker News and read MLT’s blog post about the eBay flaw.
Aussie steel giant sues ex-manager for data theft
Jonathan Pearlman reports: Australian steel giant BlueScope Steel has launched legal action to try and retrieve “highly sensitive” information from a Singapore- based former manager, Ms Chinnari Sridevi Somanchi, who has been accused of corporate spying. A suit filed in Australia’s Federal Court alleges that Ms Somanchi downloaded company secrets before she was laid off….