Missy Baxter reports: In a much-anticipated court ruling, a Minnesota federal judge said Tuesday that Target Corp. had a duty to protect debit and credit card information from cyberthieves. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson rejected Target’s attempt to dismiss claims filed by a group of financial institutions seeking damages related to the retailer’s data breach in late…
Category: Business Sector
Yet another Experian data breach
On November 20, Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of yet another breach involving the compromise of a client’s login credentials to their credit report database. The credentials were misused to obtain identity information on an unspecified number of consumers’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and/or account numbers. In this case, the…
CORRECTED: Valve not hacked
CORRECTION and UPDATE: SLC Security, who originally claimed that Valve had been owned, has updated their post with the following statement: FRAUD ALERT: Domain’s (sic) posing as Valve Corp (Russian) UPDATE: We were contacted by the hosting provider Akamai and advised that the domain in the capture below is actually an imposter out of Russia….
Hackers Infiltrate Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator
Mike Lennon reports additional details on a breach noted previously on this blog: SP+, a company that provides parking, maintenance and security services to property owners, said on Friday that an unauthorized attacker gained access to its payment processing systems and was able to access customer names and payment card information. The company said that…
More from the Sony Pictures hack: Budgets, Layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 SSN
Kevin Roose reports: Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace. The document, which listed the names, titles, and salaries of more than 6,000 Sony Pictures employees including senior executives (and may have revealed…
More Trouble For Sony? PlayStation Servers ‘Used To Spread Stolen Data’
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Things could be about to go from bad to worse for Sony. Having been allegedly hacked by a crew going by the name of Guardians of Peace (GOP) and an alleged 27GB of data chucked on numerous peer-to-peer file sharing networks, it’s now emerged PlayStation Network web servers are being used to hand out…