Delwyn Pinto reports: When a small-time Tennessee restaurateur named Khaled Abdel Fattah was running short of cash he went to an ATM machine. Actually, according to federal prosecutors, he went to a lot of them. Over 18 months, he visited a slew of small kiosk ATMs around Nashville and withdrew a total of more than…
Category: Hack
Rex Mundi surfaces with new hack claims (UPDATE2)
It looks like hacking group Rex Mundi may be back. And they seem to be dumping all of the Domino’s data they claimed to have hacked back in June, plus data allegedly from hacks of Thomas Cook Belgium, Finalease Car Credit, and Mensura. In a paste describing their activities, they write that they stole “personal records belonging…
Chino Latino and Burger Jones hit by data breach
Clare Kennedy reports: Diners at Chino Latino in Minneapolis and Burger Jones in Burnsville may have had credit and debit card information stolen by hackers, owner Parasole Restaurant Holdings said. The intrusion affected about 5 percent of credit and debit transactions from January until July, when the Edina-based restaurant group became aware of the intrusion, according to a news release. Read…
CDT Files Brief in Wyndham Supporting FTC Regulation of Data Security
G.S. Hans writes: On Wednesday, November 12th CDT, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, filed an amicus brief in the long-running FTC v. Wyndham litigation. […] Our amicus highlights a few additional points that we think demonstrate why it’s vital that the FTC regulate data security. Read more on CDT.
FTC Refutes Wyndham’s Challenge; Unreasonable Security Is “Unfair”
Patricia Ballin reports: Generating a flurry of conversation among privacy professionals worldwide, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week filed its response to Wyndham Worldwide Corporation’s interlocutory appeal in the Third Circuit. […] The FTC’s response outlines and affirmatively answers the three questions presented in Wyndham’s appeal: whether a company’s unreasonable failure to protect the security…
Update: South Carolina extends free ID theft protection through October 2015
WMBF reports that South Carolina taxpayers are getting one more year of free IDtheft protection from CSID for the security breach in 2012 that compromised 3.8 million taxpayers’ data.