Add Peppermill Resort Spa & Casino to the list of hospitality entities that were hacked last year but didn’t learn of it until this year. According to their notification letter of October 5, the hack involved their front desk system and resulted in the compromise of customers’ payment card information, including security codes. The hack…
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Former Comptroller of Albuquerque Construction Company Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Firm
AP is reporting that Stephanie Pyle, 40, has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison for fraud and identity theft. She was also ordered to pay more than $2.4M in restitution. Pyle was arraigned in February, 2015 after a grand jury returned a 12-count indictment charging her with six counts of access device fraud and…
Dow Jones Discloses Customer Data Breach
Stephen Perlberg reports: Dow Jones & Co. disclosed that hackers had gained unauthorized entry to its systems, accessing contact information for current and former subscribers in order to send fraudulent solicitations. The data breach potentially accessed payment card information for fewer than 3,500 individuals, said Dow Jones, a unit of News Corp and owner of The Wall…
(Now other) Advocates press federal regulators to investigate Experian data breach
Priya Anand reports: Consumer and data privacy advocates are asking federal regulators to investigate the breach at credit bureau Experian, which compromised the personal information of millions of T-Mobile customers. “We believe that it is incumbent on the regulatory agencies to fully investigate this breach, including whether other Experian databases have been breached,” they wrote in…
Maybe every e-commerce site should assume they were hacked last year
Customers may be singing, “You got mud on your face, you big disgrace” when they receive a breach notification from GlamGlow, the latest business to disclose that it had a breach more than one year ago that they’ve only recently discovered. The notification letter begins: We recently became aware that an unauthorized party accessed the glamglowmud.com website and acquired certain…
Uber checks connections between hacker and Lyft
Dan Levine and Joseph Menn of Reuters report that Uber is attempting to obtain evidence that might link the hack of its drivers’ database to its chief rival, Lyft. An IP address of particular interest “can be traced to the chief of technology” at Lyft, sources tell the reporters. The court papers draw no direct connection between…