Add University of the Southwest to your list of those notifying current and former employees that their W-2 or payroll information was accessed without authorization from their vendor, Greenshades. But don’t jump to conclude that the fault is with Greenshades, because the tax filing vendor says the problem is not with them. Following up on previous breach…
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Banks Sue Wendy’s Over Five-Month-Long Data Hack
Nick Rummell reports that it’s not just affected customers suing Wendy’s after a data breach disclosed in February – the banks are suing, too: A major data security breach at Wendy’s restaurants could have been easily prevented had the company acted faster, according to a class action filed on behalf of banks whose customers were…
GoldCorp hacked, data dumped
Yesterday I was contacted by hackers who claimed that GoldCorp, a gold-mining firm with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia (TSX:G NYSE: GG), had been “badly hacked” and its data dumped. I’ve written up the details we’ve found so far, and you can read all about it on The Daily Dot, where I’ll be contributing occasionally. And if you’re the hacker(s) who…
Demand letter served on poll body over disastrous ‘Comeleak’ breach
There continues to be a lot of media coverage of the COMELEC breach in the Philippines. Here’s an interesting response. Carlos Nazareno reports: The Center for International Law Philippines (Centerlaw), a human rights legal group, delivered on Monday, April 25, a demand letter to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) over its possible failure to reasonably protect the…
Lawsuit claims workers comp insurers hacked into injured workers’ files
Donna Mahoney reports: A California worker claims in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally hacked over 32,000 confidential workers comp files. A lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Homestate, San…
Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online – users report accounts hacked, emails changed
Sarah Perez reports: A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify…