Today, Experian disclosed another data breach. This one affected 15 million customers of T-Mobile USA, for whom Experian hosts consumer data used for credit checks for new accounts. In tweeting my frustration about this latest incident, @emptywheel suggested I post the complaint I filed with the FTC about Experian in 2012. After some thought, I’ve decided…
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Experian’s servers hacked; 15 million T-Mobile USA customers affected (UPDATED)
There’s been another data breach involving Experian, it seems, although this one didn’t involve their credit reporting database. Instead, it involved data Experian houses for T-Mobile USA. In a letter to affected T-Mobile USA customers, Experian CEO Craig Boundy writes: I am writing to let you know of an incident that occurred involving T‐Mobile USA data housed…
Kmart customer details hacked
Asha Barbaschow reports that online customers of Kmart in Australia have had some their data hacked: Kmart has employed IT forensic investigators after the personal details of its online customers were hacked. The Wesfarmers-owned company said no customer credit card or other payment details have been compromised, however, customer’s names, email addresses, home addresses, telephone…
Payment processor YapStone sued over vacation rental payments data breach
From the well-that-was-quick dept.: Last week, this site reported that YapStone (VacationRentPayments) was notifying property managers and others who use their service to receive vacation rental payments that personal information in their account applications was compromised by unauthorized persons. Yesterday, Law360 reported that a New Jersey customer has filed a lawsuit against them in California federal court accusing YapStone of…
NC: High school students charged with hacking into school computers
So simple a child could do it? Fox46 reports: Iredell County, NC – Seven high school students were charged in an Iredell County campus computer breach. On Tuesday, September 1, Iredell Statesville School System reported to the sheriff’s office they has been hacked. The school believed the suspects were students at the school. The ISS IT Department quickly…
Hacker Exfocus Blamed For Knocking Rutgers University Offline With DDoS Attack, Even After Expensive Upgrade
Jeff Stone reports: Someone is tormenting Rutgers University. The New Jersey school announced on Monday it was fending off a distributed denial of service attack that crippled its Internet and Wi-Fi access. It’s just the latest cyberattack on a major U.S. research institution, and comes after a number of similar hacks against Rutgers, a school of approximately…