Dan Goodin reports that e-mail addresses, user names, and password data for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—estimated to be 1.82 million accounts—were exposed in a security breach. Read more on Ars Technica.
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Federal judge allows organizations to file amicus briefs concerning Wyndham’s motion to dismiss FTC lawsuit
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A federal court judge in New Jersey on Wednesday agreed to allow the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other organizations to seek the dismissal of a closely watched data breach lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Read more on Computerworld. I’ve previously uploaded and covered some…
Congress aides warned of email login security breach after @OpLastResort tweets notice of hack
While many of us were watching the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on FISA, @OpLastResort tweeted: While the House Judiciary Committee held #FISAOversight hearings today, we’ve been doing some oversight of the House pic.twitter.com/obWimEBjTf — OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) July 17, 2013 Today, Richard Cowan reports: Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on…
TN: Another hack involving a restaurant
WBIR reports: Local and federal investigators are looking into who stole credit card information from several customers at a Farragut restaurant. Workers with Wild Wing Cafe say a hacker broke through their system and stole credit card numbers. They say it only affected a small number of customers who were in the restaurant last week….
Sony gives up £250,000 fine appeal after PlayStation hacks in 2011
Dan Worth reports: Sony has given up its appeal over a fine of £250,000 from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) having originally vowed to fight the case. The firm claimed it has done so in order to avoid revealing information on its security procedures rather than because it now agrees with the fine. Read more…
Restaurant’s lawsuit against Micros Systems goes to trial Monday
Cotton Patch Cafe‘s lawsuit against Micros goes to trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Monday. I had posted some of the background on this case back in July 2011, here. The restaurant sued Micros after it was hacked and customers’ credit card information was stolen. Now Gary Haber reports: The lawsuit alleges that…