Loyaltybuild really needs to get ahead of the story instead of allowing the media to leak out each new part of its breach. Now we learn that the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in Ireland was also impacted. The Irish Times reports: The personal information of about 6,700 ESB customers is now known to have been…
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Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users
Dan Goodin reports: MacRumors user forums have been breached by hackers who may have acquired cryptographically protected passwords belonging to all 860,000 users, one of the top editors of the news website said Tuesday evening. Read more on Ars Technica and, to be on the safe side, change your password for the forum and for any other…
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner issues statement on Loyaltybuild data breach
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has received a preliminary report on the findings of its inspection team following an inspection today at Loyaltybuild, the company at the centre of the recent data breach. The inspection team confirmed the extent of the breach in which the full card details of over 376,000 customers…
Adobe customer files potential class action lawsuit after breach
From the it-was-inevitable-department: A customer in California has filed a potential class action lawsuit against Adobe Systems in federal court for the Northern District of California. It appears to be the first one filed, although I’m pretty sure it won’t be the last. In any event, it’s worth a blog post at least. I know,…
SuperValu revises estimate of number of their customers affected by breach while total number of customers climbs to 500,000
SuperValu has revised its assessment of the number of customers affected by a recent breach involving its vendor Loyaltybuild. It now reports that 62,500 customers may have been affected. The estimate for Axa Insurance customers now affected has also been increased to 8,000. The number is now up to 500,000 across Europe, as other Loyaltybuild…
Transcript of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham
Cross-posted from the mother ship, PogoWasRight.org: I splurged and purchased a copy of the transcript of Thursday’s oral argument in FTC v. Wyndham . You can download it here (PDF, 561kB, 186 pp.). Consider it an early holiday gift from PogoWasRight.org to you. I look forward to reading everyone’s reactions after we’ve all had time to read it. I…