Kathryn Sylvia reports: Continuing the growing trend of dismissing data breach cases when there is no evidence of actual harm, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada last week dismissed a class action case filed against Zappos related to a 2012 hacking incident. Following the hacking incident, Zappos provided notice of the data…
Category: Business Sector
Missing Link Network breach affects winery clients (update3)
Missing Link Network, the e-commerce provider for a number of wineries, notified its clients on May 27th of a breach that occurred between April 1 and April 30. The breach resulted in the attacker gaining access to customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and payment card data. Affected clients include (links go to their notification…
Home Depot Investor Wants Look At Data Breach Books
Emily Field reports: A Home Depot Inc. stockholder recently hit the retailer with a suit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking to inspect certain of its books and records related to the data breach last year that’s believed to be the largest in U.S. history. Plaintiff Cora Frohman told the court she intends to inspect these…
Cardinals Face F.B.I. Inquiry in Hacking of Astros’ Network
Michael S. Schmidt reports: The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel. Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals…
Uber Petition Website Hacked- Hacker Uploaded Ad of Rival Firm Lyft
Waqas writes: Due to a security flaw, researcher Austin Epperson took control of a page of Uber’s website and displayed the ad of its arch-rival Lyft. Security researcher Austin Epperson proved that Uber’s website was exploitable by hacking one of its micro-site. However, Epperson didn’t steal personal data nor did he spread any malware but to…
Hyundai customer information leak
Hyundai customer information seems to have been hacked and leaked by TurkHackTeam.org. The data fields include userid, name, telephone number, email address, and other details for what appears to be hundreds of the firm’s Brazilian customers. The data from what appears to be over 350 customers were dumped in two pastes on Pastebin last week….