The Gettysburg Times reports: Those who paid for meals at Gettysburg Hotel’s One Lincoln Restaurant using a credit card between June 2 and July 31 may have had their data compromised, according to a news release from the hotel. Delaware Business Systems, the hotel’s point-of-sale vendor, told the restaurant on Aug. 6 that the “Back-off” malicious…
Category: Business Sector
Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected
From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…
Hacked if you do, hacked if you don’t? I almost pity Sony.
Well, sure, this will help. NOT. Seen on Pastebin: MESSAGE TO CEO OF SONY – MICHAEL LYNTON I Dear Mr. Michael Lynton (CEO of Sony Entertainment), We shall first-off begin this message with an expression of sympathy as you have failed to release “The Interview” as you believe that hackers shall carry out a new…
Target Averts Most – But Not All – Claims Over Data Breach
Jack Bouboushian reports: A federal judge dismissed most consumer-negligence claims against Target for cybersecurity failures that resulted in a massive data breach last year. […] Magnuson dismissed the majority of those claims Thursday after finding that some consumers’ states do not permit the remedy they seek. While plaintiffs have shown that they suffered pecuniary damages…
Hackers demand Sony remove all signs The Interview existed or more data will be released
Jacob Kastrenakes reports: The hackers who attacked Sony Pictures are making more demands of the studio following their success in scrapping the release of The Interview, according to CNN. CNN reports that top Sony executives received an email from the hacking group last night with a message saying that it would withhold further data, but only if the studio never let…
Presidian Hotels & Resorts releases information about data breach investigation
Visalia, California (December 19, 2014): Officials of Presidian Hotels & Resorts (Presidian), an independent hotel management company, announce the suspected breach of the point-of-sale system from the period July 26, 2014 – September 2, 2014 at food and beverage outlets such as the restaurant at the Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center Hotel, in Visalia,…