Rachel Karcz reports Fabricare has been hacked and customer credit card data was stolen. View the news segment on WPTZ. A copy of Fabricare’s notification to customers was uploaded today to the Vermont Attorney General’s site here (pdf). The short version: If you used a credit card at any one of our locations between April 1st 2014 and…
Category: Business Sector
Update: Russian dating website Topface pays off ‘Mastermind’ hacker following email breach, and will work with him going forward
David Gilbert reports an update to the hack of Russian dating web site Topface. As noted previously on this blog, the data had been put up for sale. Now Gilbert reports: Russian dating site Topface has confirmed it has paid off a hacker who revealed a flaw in its security systems, through which he stole 20…
Long Island gym owner arraigned on charges of misuse of customers’ credit card information
William Murphy reports that Thomas Donovan, the owner of 5 Star Kickboxing (previously known as KOXO Kickboxing) in Oceanside, NY, has been arraigned on charges of stealing more than $29,000 from Home Depot by using credit card information obtained from his customers. Newsday has the details (subscription required). The number of customers affected was not reported….
1,700 file group lawsuit against Benesse over data theft
I’ve been noting updates on the Benesse data theft, which was first disclosed in July 2014. Here’s the latest development, from the Japan Times: More than 1,700 people filed a group lawsuit on Thursday against major education service provider Benesse Corp. over last year’s massive theft of customer data. They are demanding ¥55,000 [$464.24 USD…
United website breach let fliers see each others’ private data
I reported on the United Airlines MileagePlus incident earlier this month, but now Cory Doctorow is reporting yet another breach involving United Airlines: My wife came back from giving a conference speech in Las Vegas in December with the weirdest story: when she fired up the United check-in mobile site, she found herself looking at…
MI: Police investigating possible point of sale breaches
The Marquette City Police Department is investigating reports of point of sales breaches at local businesses in Marquette. And that’s all Ryan Jarvi reports. I can find no other media coverage of this investigation at this time, though.