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…
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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…
Update: CV officials: Specialist not 100 percent certain on hacker access to district files
An update to this breach: Cumberland Valley School District Friday continued to warn parents about a hacking incident after a forensic specialist concluded in a report that there is not a 100 percent guarantee that no confidential information was accessed. The information Friday stems from an incident on Aug. 21 in which district administration was…
Adobe Data Breach Lawsuit Picks Up Speed
William Dotinga reports: Adobe will face the bulk of a class action stemming from “shoddy security protocols” that led to a massive data breach, a federal judge ruled Thursday. After hackers stole the credit card and log-in data of 38 million people from Adobe’s systems last year, consumers behind the sprawling consolidated action faulted Adobe for ignoring…
SC: Sea Pines Resort victims of security breach
Jamison Dowd reports: Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head, home of the RBC Heritage, may have been the victims of a computer hack resulting in stolen credit card information. Officials with the resort sat they are conducting a full investigation the extent of the situation and is working with credit card networks to minimize the impact…