Insider breaches in restaurants is a global problem, but this may be the first report of its kind I can remember seeing from China. Ke Jiayun reports: City restaurant and entertainment venue staff are among 51 people held in connection with a nationwide forged bank card network said to have netted nearly 10 million yuan (US$1.62…
Category: Business Sector
Supervalu investigating potential data breach: WSJ
Ramkumar Iyer reports: U.S. supermarket chain Supervalu Inc is investigating a potential data breach that could have affected more than 1,000 of its stores, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The data breach appears to have taken place in late June or early July and may be…
DE: Local Car Rental Worker Steals Cutsomers’ IDs
From WILM: A rental car employee is accused of stealing customers’ identities. Karlvin Zidor is charged with stealing credit card information while working at Enterprise Rent A Car in Milford. The investigation started with Henrico County Police in Virginia, who determined an identity theft ring was getting information from someone in Delaware. Zidor is charged…
Ca: Laptop stolen from Grimsby yoga studio
Amanda Moore reports: A Grimsby business owner is scrambling after her laptop, cash and cheques were stolen from her studio. Last week, Kimberley Whittemore, owner of Balanced Being Fitness Inc., returned to the studio from a coffee break downstairs at Station One to find the computer missing. The laptop, an older Toshiba model, contained hundreds…
ACTE members’ data stolen by hackers
Rob Gill reports: Hackers have stolen data of all members of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. ACTE’s executive director Greeley Koch said that there had been a “malicious theft” yesterday (August 11) of members’ names and email address, although no other data such as credit card details or addresses was acquired by the hackers….
Reminder to terminate login credentials of terminated employees
Today’s reminder is from a breach I came across in reviewing records obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request I filed. American Medical Response is a billing/collections agency. In the course of business, they routinely access a database maintained by Acxiom Insight. Apparently, login credentials of an inactive employee were never properly…