Steve Karnowski and Michelle Chapman of AP report: A Minnesota judge has endorsed a settlement in which Target Corp. will pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a massive data breach in 2013. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson said at a hearing Thursday in St. Paul, Minnesota, that he would grant preliminary approval…
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GA: Taco Bell Employee Stole Identities While Working Drive-Thru Window
Kristal Dixon reports: An employee at a fast food restaurant is accused of stealing customers’ financial information to make unauthorized purchases. Roswell police have arrested and charged Rosetta Louise Brinson with two counts of identity fraud, obstruction of a law enforcement officer and two counts of computer theft. Fulton County Jail records show Brinson was…
Target Poised to Pay $10M to Data Breach Victims in Proposed Settlement
Steve Tellier reports: Court documents indicate Target has reached a possible settlement agreement in the massive credit card data breach in 2013. According to the documents, Target has agreed to put $10 million toward a settlement fund, with individuals who can prove they suffered financial harm as a result of the breach splitting that pot…
EMC data security fails the old fashioned way
David Chernicoff writes: I received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday from EMC Corporation. It seems that at some point in the last two months of 2014 they managed to lose control of my basic personal information, including my date of birth and Social Security number — giving the ability to whoever acquired the…
Benesse Holdings discloses yet another customer information data leak
Kyodo News reports more data leak woes for Benesse Holdings. The correspondence education provider is still dealing with the fallout from a data theft last June that affected 28.95 million customers when a systems engineer working for an affiliate, Synform, downloaded personal information, including children’s names, addresses and birth dates, onto his smartphone. In September, the government…
E. K. and Company notifies clients of stolen hard drive with financial information
I haven’t seen one of these “the data can’t be accessed without specialized software” reassurances in quite a while: Mark Riley, Inc. dba E. K. and Company (“E. K. and Company”) is an accounting and payroll processing company. On January 19, 2015, E. K. and Company’s office was broken into and a hard drive was…