Oi veh. Kevin Roose reports: Along with the files smuggled out of Sony Pictures this week, we also discovered a cache of documents apparently relating to internal personnel matters at Deloitte. This appears to be an accident of circumstance. The files appear to come from a single target’s computer. While this person appears to be…
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Update and Correction: Valve not hacked
In another post on this site, we cited statements by SLC Security that Valve had allegedly been owned. SLC has since corrected 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…
Banks: Credit Card Breach at Bebe Stores (updated)
Brian Krebs reports that it appears that customer payment card data from BeBe‘s has been hacked. Update: BeBe has now confirmed the breach. As Reuters reports: The exposed data may have included cardholder names, account numbers, expiration dates and verification codes, the apparel retailer said on Friday. The company said the affected transactions were made…
Target Had Duty to Protect Data: Judge
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…
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….