Quick update: The Yandy breach, disclosed previously on this blog, may have affected 44,724 customers, according to a letter from their attorneys to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
Category: Hack
EA Firemonkeys Forum Hacked Last Year, Member Information Stolen – Report
What was temporary maintenance for the forum of EA Firemonkeys, an Australian studio, which resulted in it being taken down actually turned out to be a hacking incident where members’ information was stolen. This is according to a recent Reddit post which alleged that “information of over 40,000 members (including names, and email addresses) downloaded and stolen”…
FL: Beef O’ Brady’s electronic payment network hacked
Fox13 reports: Another data breach has been reported, this time at a popular restaurant chain across Florida. The Beef O’ Brady’s electronic payment network has been hacked. Authorities made the discovery after several customers complained of unauthorized transactions showing up on their bank statements. Read more on Fox13.
Yandy notifies online customers of breach
If you purchased lingerie or other items from Phoenix-based Yandy.com, you may be getting a breach notification. Yandy reports that they became aware of the breach on August 18, and it involved customers’ names, postal and email addresses, card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV codes. Although the notification letter, signed only by “The Yandy Team,” does…
NCQA spots – and stops – ecommerce breach quickly
How quickly can your organization detect and stop a breach? It looks like the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) caught one pretty quickly, as it only affected customers making online purchases on September 3 between 2 am and 10 am. They called those affected, and by September 5, were sending out letters to those…
A file in the wrong place led to discovery of CSU-East Bay’s breach
Karina Ioffee provides additional details on the CSU – East Bay breach reported yesterday: The intrusion on August 23, 2013 by an unknown person using malicious software was discovered August 11 during a routine security check by the university’s technology department, said Jeff Bliss, a university spokesman. Bliss said university IT workers found that there…