December 30, 2013 ‘wichcraft Operating, LLC recently learned that an unauthorized party gained access to our systems, compromising the payment card information of certain customers who made purchases at a ‘wichcraft location in New York or San Francisco using a payment card from approximately August 11, 2013 to October 2, 2013. Based on our investigation,…
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T-Mobile USA customers to be notified of security breach at supplier’s (update 2)
It looks like T-Mobile USA will be sending out breach notification letters to customers after the New Year. A template of their notification letter, uploaded today to California’s breach site, explains: We are writing to inform you of a recent incident of unauthorized access to a file stored on servers owned and managed by a…
Following hack, RegistratioNation discovers some customer data was inadvertently being stored on its server (updated)
RegistratioNation is a provider of automated online payment processing and database management for event registrations. On December 23, their attorneys notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of an intrusion that occurred on November 4, 2013. The intrusion was discovered on November 22, and during investigation, the firm discovered that although payment card information was supposed…
Orient-Express Hotels notifies guests after data security breach (updated)
The Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. and its subsidiaries have notified an unspecified number of customers of a breach involving their credit card information. On September 24, 2013, the luxury travel firm learned that an unauthorized individual had gained access to seven corporate e-mail accounts between July 2013 and September 24. Customers’ names, payment card numbers, card…
Data breach cost $3.7m, claims report
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports on the cost to the U.S. of investigations involving U.K. hackers: Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, was arrested in October over charges which include allegations he hacked the US Department of Energy (DoE) computers. A report says personal information on 104,000 people could have been taken. It says dealing with…
WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison
Eric Jou reports: Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. Read more on Kotaku.com.