Alexander J. Martin reports: Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft’s certification management provider, Pearson VUE, has copped to a data breach following a malware compromise of its Credential Manager System. The Pearson Credential Manager (PCM) system supports a number of companies’ certification tracking programmes. Pearson VUE stated that an “unauthorised third party improperly accessed certain information…
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Linux Australia suffers another data leak
Sam Varghese reports: Linux Australia has suffered a second leak of data from its servers, according to a message sent to its main mailing list by president Joshua Hesketh. The umbrella organisation for Linux user groups in the country suffered a data breach in March this year. Hesketh said a limited amount of personal information had…
W.W. Grainger issues password reset for users of their mobile app
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…
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…