David Allison reports: Some of the lawsuits hitting The Home Depot Inc. over its recent data breach are apparently hitting too close to home for some federal judges in Atlanta. Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is facing at least 21 lawsuits stemming from the data breach, which reportedly may affect 60 million customers. More than a dozen of the lawsuits…
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CO: HuHot Mongolian Grill employee accused of skimming customers’ credit card info
Jennifer Kovaleski and Alan Gathright report: Sheridan police say they arrested an employee at HuHot Mongolian Grill who is accused of stealing customers’ credit card information. Sheridan Police Chief Mark Campbell said investigators arrested 31-year-old Michael Alexander Stephens on Wednesday afternoon. He works at the HuHot Mongolian Grill at 3698 S. Natches Ct. in the…
JP: Ex-systems engineer arrested over doctors’ data leak
Kyodo News reports: Police on Tuesday arrested a former employee of a Tokyo medical recruitment agency on suspicion of illegally copying the personal data of around 17,000 doctors and nurses. Kengo Mikami, 36, is suspected of copying the confidential information on or around May 30, 2012, while working as a systems engineer for the company…
Sourcebooks suffers credit card data breach (update2)
Dave Lewis writes: It wouldn’t be a Friday afternoon without a company sharing that they had suffered a data breach. Normally, I’m the first person to be sympathetic in this type of situation but, I have seen enough of these Friday disclosures that I’m starting to call bull spit on these. Just “starting,” Dave? What…
Cyberswim notifying online customers of breach at web host (UPDATED)
Uh oh. Any consumer notification template that reports a breach due to malware injection on the web host’s server and/or includes [INSERT SITE NAME HERE] doesn’t bode well, especially when the compromise lasted for more than three months before being detected. See Cyberswim‘s template notification letter, here (pdf). I don’t see any notification on their web site…
Dropbox passwords leak: Hundreds of accounts hacked after third-party security breach (update – not Dropbox accounts)
Update: leaked login credentials claimed to be associated with Dropbox accounts are not Dropbox accounts, according to Dropbox. Rose Troup Buchanan reports: Hundreds of passwords to Dropbox accounts have been leaked in the latest security breach, with hackers threatening to release millions more account details in exchange for Bitcoin. Hackers, who were apparently able to access logins and…