An update to a breach previously noted on this blog. Anna Burlson reports: Three North Dakota University System employees who dealt in IT security have been put on administrative leave following a massive security breach last winter. The personal information of more than 290,000 current and past NDUS students was vulnerable for four months before…
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Supervalu lawsuit: Hackers may have stolen credit card info from local Shop ‘n Save customers
Daniel Kelly reports: A class-action lawsuit alleges a national chain of grocery stores, which includes several local Shop ‘n Save stores, failed to protect its customers from hackers who may have stolen their financial information. Representatives of Supervalu, the parent company of Shop ‘n Save, have said they do not know of any customers affected…
MeetMe’s notification to California Attorney General’s Office
MEETME STATUTORY NOTICE NEW HOPE, Pa., August 15, 2014 — MeetMe, Inc. today announced that it has recently discovered a security breach within its network that compromised certain information in at least some MeetMe user accounts. Specifically, between August 5 and 7 of this year, MeetMe believes that hackers gained access to some user names, email addresses, and encrypted…
Restaurant Mizado Cocina says customer credit card data breached by hacker
Katherine Sayer reports: New Orleans restaurant Mizado Cocina says customers’ credit and debit card information could have been stolen by a hacker who breached the restaurant’s point of sale system between May 9 and July 18. The business discovered that a hacker installed a previously unidentified malware called Backoff, which targets point of sale systems, on…
Wyndham Says FTC Must Detail Consumer Harm In Data Suit
Kira Lerner reports: Wyndham Worldwide Corp. told a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission must prove that the cyberattacks against the hotel chain, which the agency alleges led to more than $10.6 million in losses, caused “substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves.” Read more…
AU: Student Faces Two Years In Prison For Allegedly Hacking Frances Abbott’s Scholarship Information
Peter Terlato reports on a hack leading to a bit of a political flap: A 21-year-old communications student from the University of Technology, Sydney has been charged with gaining unlawful access to restricted files which contained information pertaining to Frances Abbott’s $60,000 scholarship. NSW Police issued a court summons to part-time librarian Freya Newman earlier…