The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued civil monetary penalty (CMP) of £180,000 to the Money Shop in the wake of two incidents in 2014 that led to a fuller investigation of the Money Shop’s data protection policies and procedures. As described in the notice, on April 16, 2014, a Money Shop store in Lurgan, Northern Ireland was…
Category: Business Sector
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Backer Says It Has Been Hacked, Surveilled and Harassed
Eriq Gardner reports: Red Granite Pictures, the finance company behind The Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb and Dumber To and the upcoming Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy Daddy’s Home, claims in a new lawsuit that it has been the subject of a malicious hack that has intimidated employees and disrupted its business. According to a complaint filed against anonymous individuals on Wednesday,…
Man convicted of identity theft, fake organizations for veterans
Austin Baird reports: For the better part of three years, Alan Michael Bartlett of Owosso, Mich., was the leader of U.S. Disabled Veterans, LLC and U.S. Handicapped-Disadvantaged Services, LLC. The organizations sound noble enough, but a jury on Monday found the 46-year-old guilty of using the businesses as a front to defraud dozens of people…
China Jails TV Hacker for 12 Years Over Anti-Govt Broadcast
Another case where a disgruntled employee wreaks havoc. AFP reports: An engineer who hacked into a Chinese cable television system has been jailed for 12 years, state media reported, after he broadcast denunciations of the ruling Communist party — including showing the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image. Wang Yibo accessed the cable feed to 465,000 set-top…
Security alert at Hover leads to password reset
There’s not much detail yet, but Graham Cluley reports: Website domain name registrar Hover has emailed users warning of possible “unauthorised access” to one of its systems, and told them that they will not be able to log into the service until they reset their passwords. Read more on GrahamCluley.com
Neiman Marcus Asks Full 7th Circuit to Consider Standing Ruling in Breach Suit
Michael Beder writes: A Seventh Circuit panel that allowed a data breach suit against Neiman Marcus to proceed misapplied the Supreme Court’s precedents on standing and, “if allowed to stand, will impose wasteful litigation burdens on retailers and the federal courts,” the retailer argues in a petition filed yesterday asking the full Seventh Circuit to rehear the…