Brian Krebs reports: In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, upscale hotel chain Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group today confirmed that its hotels have been affected by a credit card breach. Reached for comment about reports from financial industry sources about a pattern of fraudulent charges on customer cards that had all recently been used at Mandarin hotels, the…
Category: Business Sector
Breaking up is hard to do: Law firms clash over laptops taken by departing lawyers
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A battle over laptops taken by lawyers to a new law firm failed to reach a settlement last week during a three-hour session before a magistrate judge. The suit by Pennsylvania insurance boutique Nelson Brown Hamilton & Krekstein initially sought the return of laptops taken by 14 departing lawyers to Lewis,…
Sony Ex-Employees File Amended Class Action Suit Over Hacking Attack
Ted Johnson reports: Nine former Sony employees have filed an amended class action lawsuit against Sony Pictures Entertainment, alleging that the studio failed to take adequate safeguards to protect personal information that was exposed in the hacking attack last year. “Following the breach, SPE has focused on its own remediation efforts, not on protecting employees’ sensitive…
Update to Vendini breach: Settlement reached with insurer
Back in September 2013, online ticket broker Vendini was sued by its insurer, who, not surprisingly, did not want to have to provide coverage for a breach that may have affected up to three million customers (previous coverage of the breach and aftermath linked from here). Now the law firm of King & Spalding reports: On February…
Recap of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham
Katherine Gasztonyi reports: Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp.The court focused on several themes: First, whether Congress has entrusted the FTC to define new unfair practices, whether the FTC has declared that unreasonable cybersecurity practices are unfair, and whether the FTC is asking the…
Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of GoPRO Users’ Wireless Passwords
Wang Wei reports: GoPro, the popular wearable high-definition camera manufacturer, has vulnerability (sic) in its official website that exposes usernames and passwords of thousand of its customers’ wireless network. Read more on The Hacker News. The vulnerability was reported by Ilya Chernyakov, who reports that US CERT contacted GoPro about the vulnerability he discovered.