Okay, I grant you that I am not in a great mood today, but color me unsympathetic to those who are “horrified” that clients’ data is stolen when they haven’t adequately secured the data. Case in point: My Dear Tax Clients, It is with a heavy heart that I bring you this news. On Friday…
Category: Business Sector
DutchWear notifies online customers of payment card breach
Boersma Bros. LLC, dba DutchWear has disclosed a breach affecting those who made purchases online between November 7th and December 6th. On Saturday, December 6th, 2014, we received information that raised suspicion of an unauthorized breach of our website that was exposing the payment information for some customers of DutchWear. In order to best protect…
ID Parts notifies 12,000 customers of payment card breach
ID Parts, LLC is notifying approximately 12,000 customers that malware inserted in their server for their e-commerce site (idparts.com) may have captured payment card information between January 2014 and October 28, 2014. ID Parts was alerted to the breach by American Express, whose fraud investigation had pointed to ID Parts as the common point of…
Incident Summary #4: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email
Posted yesterday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email Incident A customer of a service provider received a routine email from the service provider advising her of when her seasonal service would be reconnected. However, she noticed that the email…
Sony Hackers Snooped for Months, Then Planted 10-Minute Time Bomb
Pavel Alpeyev and Grace Huang report: Hackers who broke into Sony Corp.’s Hollywood unit probably spent months collecting passwords and mapping the network before they committed a last act of vandalism, setting off a virus that wiped out data and crashed the system in 10 minutes. Trend Micro Inc. arrived at these conclusions after running…
North Korea Seeks Joint Investigation Into Sony Hack With U.S.
Ben Moshinsky reports: North Korea’s government said it had nothing to do with the hacking of Sony Corp.’s computer systems and called on the U.S. to hold a joint investigation into the incident. North Korea can prove its innocence and warned of “grave consequences” if the U.S. fails to take up its offer, the country’s…