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Home Depot says 53 million more email addresses stolen; retailers urge Congress to pass data breach law

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Home Depot Inc, the world’s largest home improvement chain, said about 53 million more email addresses were taken during a recent breach of its payment data systems. […] Home Depot said the stolen files that contained the additional email addresses did not include passwords, payment card information or other sensitive personal information. Criminals…

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“We thought we had done all that could be done to protect your information.” (update)

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Dissent

Even those who are conscientious may find themselves having to notify consumers of a breach, as One Love Organics discovered last month. In a letter dated October 30 and signed by Suzanne LeRoux, President of the Georgia-based, LeRoux writes: We had performed the required security and hardening procedures required by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI…

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Lyft Accuses Former COO Of Stealing Confidential Documents Before Joining Uber

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Dissent

Ryan Lawler reports: On-demand rides startup Lyft is taking its former COO Travis VanderZanden to court for breach of his confidentiality agreement and fiduciary duty weeks after the executive joined arch-rival Uber. In a complaint filed this afternoon in San Francisco Superior Court, Lyft claims VanderZanden downloaded a number of non-public company documents to his personal Dropbox account…

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AU: Telstra ordered to pay AU$18K over privacy breach

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Dissent

Leon Spencer reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has ordered Telstra to pay AU$18,000 and apologise to a judge after it failed to tell him it had published his details in the White Pages directory. According to the OAIC, the unnamed judge — identified only as “DK” — contacted Telstra to have…

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U.K.: ICO imposes monetary penalty on hotel booking site following SQL injection breach in 2013

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Dissent

A press release from the ICO: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning organisations that they must make sure their websites are protected against one of the most common forms of online attack – known as SQL injection. The warning comes after the hotel booking website, Worldview Limited, was fined £7,500 following a serious data breach where…

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MO: Kansas man pleads guilty to using skimmer to steal credit card numbers at Missouri Taco Bell

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Dissent

Associated Press reports: A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to stealing credit card information while he worked at a Taco Bell in Belton, Missouri. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a news release that 32-year-old Yao Vignon Kpade, of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty Monday to electronic device fraud. Read more on The Republic.

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