Bryan Baker of WRDW in Georgia reports that Dollar Tree in North Augusta was hacked over the weekend: Employees say someone hacked into the store’s computers, potentially exposing sensitive customer information. North Augusta Public Safety says so far there have been no identity theft complaints from Dollar Tree customers. The store agreed, telling News 12…
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Two Official Kaspersky Websites Hacked
Lucian Constantin reports: A grey hat hacker has found a critical SQL injection weakness on the official Kaspersky Lab websites in Malaysia and Singapore. Exploiting the vulnerability leads to full compromise of the underlying database, which contains customer information, product keys and other sensitive data. The attack has been documented by a Romanian hacker calling…
Court Rejects Request to Consolidate TJX Hacker Cases
Kim Zetter of Threat Level reports that: A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request from U.S. attorneys to consolidate a New Jersey case against Albert Gonzalez, who has admitted hacking more than 120 million credit card numbers from Heartland Payment Systems, with two other cases against him in Massachusetts. […] The case was…
Judge dismisses shareholder lawsuit against Heartland (updated)
Dan Kaplan reports: A U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey has tossed out a class-action lawsuit filed by shareholders against Heartland Payment Systems, the credit card processor announced Wednesday. The judge granted Heartland’s motion to dismiss the action, which was filed in the wake of Heartland’s massive breach that was reported earlier this year,…
Update: Court to decide what time, trouble are worth in Hannaford breach
Judy Harrison reports: Whether Hannaford Bros. customers may recover damages for the time and trouble it took them to straighten out their bank or credit card accounts after the Scarborough-based firm’s computer system was breached in late 2007 and early 2008 now is up to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The justices have never considered…
A rather bland breach notification sparks questions
Steve Ragan reports: Alpha Software Inc., a business that focuses on development tools for businesses wishing to create AJAX-based platforms, recently announced a data breach in a manner so casual, some actually questioned if it was real. […] Dear Customer, We have been informed that there has been a security breach at the Internet Service…