Hong Kong’s local fast food chain Cafe de Coral has accidentally leaked the personal details of members of its bonus-point program, it said on Friday. The company said the mistake was made last month in an email to a third party, which it did not identify, adding the personal details include names, phone numbers, email…
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Two Men Who Breached Photobucket.com Indicted and Arrested on Conspiracy and Fraud Related Charges
Two men have been arrested after breaching the computer services of Colorado based Photobucket, a company that operates an image and video hosting website. Brandon Bourret, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, of Sunnyvale, California, were arrested on Friday, May 8. According to the indictment, beginning on July 12, 2012 and continuing…
Hack of RE/MAX Twin City Realty agent’s gmail account costs young home buyer $10K – and they refuse to make it right
Sean O’Shea reports that when a realtor’s gmail account was hacked, it cost a home purchaser $10,000 – $10,000 that the agent and her realty firm won’t compensate. The young home buyer, Kaitlyn DiMarco, says that after she purchased a home, she received an email – purportedly from her realtor – telling her that it would cost $10,000…
Yahoo sues ex-employee over book on Marissa Mayer
Matt O’Brien reports: Yahoo has sued a former employee for allegedly feeding confidential information to a journalist who wrote a book about CEO Marissa Mayer published earlier this year. “Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!” by Business Insider journalist Nicholas Carlson relied heavily on anonymous sources to recount Mayer’s first two years running…
Target-MasterCard settlement moves ahead despite US judge’s doubts
Joseph Ax and Nathan Layne report: A federal judge has rejected a bid from a group of banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its 2013 data breach to block the company’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc . U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote in a ruling Thursday that…
InterContinental Hotel Groups alerted by Secret Service to breach
It seems Six Continents Hotels (InterContinental Hotel Groups) was notified earlier this year by the Secret Service that some of its hotels had suffered a data security breach. One of the hotels IHG subsequently notified was Cities Service (Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Sulphur, Louisiana). IHG alerted them on February 11, 2015. When Cities Service…