Seen on Travel Mole: Holiday Extras is investigating how the email addresses of nearly 5,000 of its customers were wrongly shared online. It is contacting 4,852 customers to tell them about the security breach, which it blamed on a mistake by one of its marketing partners. In a note to its customers, Holiday Extras assured…
Category: Business Sector
U.S. Agent Lures Romanian Hackers in Subway Data Heist
Del Quentin Wilber reports: … The Secret Service and FBI are investigating an increasing number of attacks on U.S. retailers’ data, including the massive breach of Target Corp. (TGT:US) last year that affected more than 40 million debit and credit card accounts. Investigators won’t talk about the Target probe. Instead, the Secret Service pointed to O’Neill’s investigation that…
Court Rules SilverPop Not Liable for Damages After Data Breach
Back in 2010 and 2011, I posted a number of blog entries about a breach at SilverPop. SilverPop was not particularly transparent/forthcoming about the scope of the breach, but it seemed to be pretty large. Today, Ryan M. Martin of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: A Georgia court recently agreed on a summary judgment motion…
FL: Victoria’s Secret clerk stole tourists’ credit-card information, cops say
Susan Jacobson reports: A clerk at an Orlando Victoria’s Secret outlet store used a skimmer to steal tourists’ credit-card information and then sell it, federal prosecutors allege. Between Nov. 29 and April 3, the woman hid the skimmer under her skirt at Orlando Premium Outlets on International Drive and swiped customers’ cards before running them through the cash register,…
KR: Customer data stolen from NongHyup Life by subcontractor employees
Is there anyone left in South Korea who hasn’t had their information leaked by now? Sheesh. Yonhap News reports: Subcontracted employees were found to have taken some 350,000 pieces of private data belonging to customers from a local life insurance firm that hid the leak for months from authorities, the financial watchdog said Wednesday, just…
LaCie Acknowledges Year-Long Data Breach
Jeff Goldman reports: LaCie USA recently began notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been exposed when an unauthorized person used malware to access transaction data from LaCie’s Web site. The FBI notified the company of the intrusion on March 19, 2014. “We have hired a leading forensic investigation firm, who…