Meena Harris writes: Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas directed the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts to seek mediation to resolve their landmark dispute over whether the FTC has the authority to regulate companies’ data-security practices. As we’ve previously reported, the FTC alleged that Wyndham violated Section 5…
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Former BYU-Idaho student charged with grand theft and computer crimes
Caleb Despain reports: Jacob Mahonri Espinal, a former BYU-Idaho student, was formally charged with two counts of computer crimes, felonies and grand theft, a felony. […] According to the Rexburg Police Department report, Espinal, a former document processor and graduation specialist at BYU-Idaho’s Student Records and Registrations Office, posted an associates degree in science he…
USPS hackers may have accessed employees’ pay records, too
Aliya Sternstein reports: Compensation files for U.S. Postal Service workers might also have been breached during a recent hack that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data on about 800,000 USPS employees, a postal inspector said Wednesday. […] “We’re still conducting forensic analysis of the impacted servers,” said Randy Miskanic, incident commander on the…
The Evolution Store updates its breach notification
The Evolution Store recently sent an updated notification letter to those affected by their previously disclosed e-commerce breach. In their updated notification, William Stevens, President of The Evolution Store, writes that forensic investigation confirmed that unauthorized IP addresses first accessed the e-commerce site on March 2, 2014, and that the last date of unauthorized access was…
Cafe Press subsidiary hacked; photo service on Target site compromised
Cafe Press subsidiary EZ Prints is notifying customers that they recently detected an intrusion in their system that may have compromised card payment information. Only customers placing orders between September 22 and October 23 need to be concerned about this incident. The intruders reportedly exploited an unspecified vulnerability that EZ Print has identified and removed. The…
Anonymous seizes Ku Klux Klan Twitter account over Ferguson threats
Violet Blue reports: Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity’s new campaign, #OpKKK. At 6:31pm PST Anonymous said it has knocked the website belonging to “Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” — the group responsible for the Ferguson threats —…