Juan Carlos Rodriguez of Law360 reports that the plaintiff in Haskins v. Symantec didn’t fare well: A California federal judge on Friday tossed a proposed class action accusing Symantec Corp. of hiding a data breach in which hackers stole source code for its Norton anti-virus software, finding the complaint did not properly name all the products…
Category: Hack
Payment processing services provider reportedly breached in January, details scarce
Discover and American Express often submit copies of their breach notification letters to cardmembers to state attorneys general. Their letters, however, generally do not include the name of a breached merchant, so it is often difficult to know what to make of their submissions. But one particular American Express notification, submitted to California last week, caught…
United Shore Financial and Shore Mortgage report hacks involving client financial information
Back on March 20, United Shore Financial Services, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had experienced an intrusion into a server containing mortgage applicants’ names, contact information, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The letter did not specify whether the server was their own server…
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning reports breach; one of 500 entities breached
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning is notifying students that a server housing files with their personal information was compromised on March 25, 2013. The college learned of the breach on June 11, when it was notified by federal law enforcement that the server had been used by a group not affiliated with SF…
League of Legends is hacked, with crucial user info accessed
Dara Kerr reports that the League of Legends server has been hacked: Riot Games, which developed League of Legends, announced Tuesday that some usernames, e-mail addresses, salted password hashes, first and last names, and even some salted credit card numbers have been accessed. The salted data is somewhat protected, but if users have easily guessable…
University of Delaware revises breach figure
There’s an update to a breach reported previously on this blog. Nichole Dobo reports: The University of Delaware has concluded a review of how many were exposed in a data breach last month, and it determined an additional 2,000 individuals who received payment from the university were also affected. This brings the total number of…