WNYT reports: A restaurant server is accused of stealing the credit card numbers of customers, then using it to buy things for herself. Molly Dutrow, 20, now faces forgery and identity theft charges. All of the alleged thefts happened during the first two weeks of July. Police say Dutrow was working at Lillian’s Restaurant in…
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Hacker steals Bitdefender customer log-in credentials, attempts blackmail
Lucian Constantin reports: A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus company confirmed the security breach but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, whose passwords…
PagerDuty hacked … and finally comes clean 21 days later. Cheers
Alexander J. Martin reports: Why not celebrate SysAdmin Day by worrying about a data breach at incident management peddler PagerDuty? An attacker managed to get into the company’s systems on 9 July, and a belated 21 days later the company did the decent thing and informed its customers about the incident. ‘Fessing up to the…
Lawsuit filed in Medical Informatics Engineering data breach (updated)
Sherry Slater reports: The ink was barely dry on patient notification letters when Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. was named the defendant in a lawsuit alleging that negligence contributed to the local company’s May data breach. James Young, a patient whose medical information was compromised, filed the paperwork Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne….
OK: Another small restaurant’s payment processing system compromised (updated)
Some Salita’s Restaurant customers in Durant, Oklahoma reportedly became victims of credit card fraud after the restaurant’s payment processing system was breached. According to The Durant Democrat, customers who ate at Salita’s between July 1st and July 27th are most affected. There doesn’t seem to be any statement on the restaurant’s web site, but the owner…
900,000 Online and phone customers affected by Hanes hack
Richard Craver reports: Hanesbrands Inc. said Wednesday that a customer order database was breached by a hacker in June, compromising information for about 900,000 online and telephone customers. The hacker gained access to general customer information through the company’s website by posing as a “guest” customer checking an order, meaning they weren’t registered on the…