A breach involving Carson Village Market, reported previously on this blog, continues to result in new fraudulent charges on customers’ cards, and customers who used their card since January 1 are now being advised to cancel their cards. WOOD has the story.
Category: Business Sector
UK: Morrisons supermarket suffers major payroll data breach (Updated)
John E. Dunn reports: British supermarket Morrisons has reportedly suffered a major data breach which saw the pay-roll data of an unknown number of its 100,000 staff stolen and published on a website. In an email sent to staff and later seen by TV media, the attack was said to have involved the theft of…
TX: Resident Finds Unshredded Copies of Personal Documents in Apartment Dumpster
Alicia Neaves reports: On Tuesday morning, a resident of the Palms Apartments in Odessa made a disturbing discovery. […] NewsWest 9 remained with the resident until police arrived to pick up the bag. Once officers arrived, apartment management kicked us off the property. To find out if it was the apartment complex who threw these…
Target ignored its own warning system – Bloomberg (updated)
I’m watching Josh Tyrangiel of Bloomberg on CBS News this morning reporting that prior to its massive breach, Target ignored the warning alerts generated by its FireEye system. Target hasn’t responded to Bloomberg’s questions as to why the warning e-mails generated by the system were ignored. Interestingly, we heard something similar in the Neiman-Marcus breach where…
EC-Council notifies members of recent breach
John Leyden of The Register reports that the EC-Council sent out a notification to its members about the February breach noted previously on this blog. Here’s the full text of their message: On Saturday, February 22nd, 2014, the ICANN-accredited domain registrar of EC-Council was compromised and as a result, EC-Council suffered a DNS Poisoning attack,…
Loyaltybuild reopens for business after huge data breach
Elaine Edwards reports: The company at the centre of the biggest data breach ever dealt with in Ireland has recommenced trading and said it had invested €500,000 in new security systems after the criminal attack last year. Ennis-based Loyaltybuild, which provides services to companies running holiday break promotions, was hit by the breach late last year and it…