Lansing State Journal reports: FireKeepers Casino Hotel is investigating a possible data security incident involving the casino’s point of sale system, Vice President of Marketing Jim Wise said Wednesday. Wise said the investigation comes after the casino recently received “a couple of calls” from guests indicating concern about their bank or credit card statements. Wise…
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Lawsuit: Home Depot data breach was caused by management’s ‘overarching complacency’ over security
David Allison reports: Consumers hurt in the giant Home Depot data breach have filed a consolidated lawsuit that accuses the company’s management of “overarching complacency when it came to data security.” In a 187-page complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta on May 1, consumers state their case that by allowing the data breach to…
VA: Twins indicted for hacking, wire fraud, and ID theft
On April 30, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, Virginia. They were charged with aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization, access of a protected computer without authorization, conspiracy to access a government computer without authorization, false…
CA: Santa Maria Coco’s Restaurant closes suddenly; ex-employees say personal info left in dumpster
Charlie Misra reports: The sudden closure of Coco’s Bakery and Restaurant in Santa Maria a few days ago was a shock to both employees and customers. Former employees say they’ve been dealt another blow and some of them found their personnel files tossed in the dumpsters out back. Read more on KSBY.
Potential class action lawsuit against eBay dismissed
It was a good day for eBay in a federal court in Louisiana. Judge Susie Morgan dismissed, without prejudice, a potential class action lawsuit that had filed in July 2014 by Collin Green against eBay over the data breach they had disclosed in 2014. At the time, eBay said it had no evidence that payment…
EllisLab Tells Users to Change Passwords After its Web Host Discovers Security Breach
Nicole Henderson reports: EllisLab, the software development company behind the ExpressionEngine CMS, announced on Friday that hackers gained unauthorized access to its servers at the end of March and may have obtained customers’ personal information in the process. According to a post-mortem blog post, hackers logged into EllisLab.com with a stolen Super Admin password at 10:49…