Industrial supply company W.W. Grainger has issued a password reset after discovering a coding error in their mobile app that put usernames and passwords at risk. Nicely done: At Grainger, we take data privacy and security very seriously. As part of a system review, Grainger’s IT team recently identified a coding error in the Grainger.com mobile apps…
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts reports payment card information breach at 54 properties
Austen Hufford reports: A data breach at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. exposed payment card information for some of its North American hotels, the latest cybersecurity incident to sting a U.S. company. Read more on WSJ. A list of the 54 properties affected and the dates of compromise are provided here (pdf). In some…
Australian member of #Anonymous sentenced to jail
In May, DataBreaches.net began coverage of the prosecution of three men affiliated with Anonymous in Australia. The first, Mathew Hutchison (a/k/a, “Rax”) was charged with incitement and was sentenced in August to a two-year community corrections order and community service. A second youth, known online as “Juzzy” or “Absantos,” among other aliases, had also been…
CT: Alerted that banks had discovered a problem, Swiss Cleaners investigates and notifies customers of payment card breach that began in 2014
Swiss Cleaners values the relationship it has with its customers and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. Swiss Cleaners was recently notified that banks had identified a pattern of unauthorized charges on payment cards after those cards were used in Swiss Cleaners stores. Swiss Cleaners immediately began to investigate and engaged a leading…
Fashion to Figure notifying customers of payment card compromise
Fashion to Figure (B. Lane, Inc.) is notifying customers of a breach involving malware inserted on their web host’s server. The malware was reportedly inserted on the unnamed host’s server on May 19, but Fashion to Figure did not realize it until October 16, when they started investigating why a web page was loading slowly. Potentially compromised…
Noble House Hotels and Resorts notifies customers at six luxury hotels of payment card breach
Luxury hotel chain Nobel House Hotels and Resorts is notifying customers of a breach they uncovered in the wake of reports by customers of fraudulent charges on payment cards. In a letter sent to those potentially affected, Patrick R. Colee, Chairman of Noble House Hotels & Resorts, writes, in part: Through our investigation, Noble House…