Austen Hufford reports: A data breach at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. exposed payment card information for some of its North American hotels, the latest cybersecurity incident to sting a U.S. company. Read more on WSJ. A list of the 54 properties affected and the dates of compromise are provided here (pdf). In some…
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CT: Alerted that banks had discovered a problem, Swiss Cleaners investigates and notifies customers of payment card breach that began in 2014
Swiss Cleaners values the relationship it has with its customers and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. Swiss Cleaners was recently notified that banks had identified a pattern of unauthorized charges on payment cards after those cards were used in Swiss Cleaners stores. Swiss Cleaners immediately began to investigate and engaged a leading…
Fashion to Figure notifying customers of payment card compromise
Fashion to Figure (B. Lane, Inc.) is notifying customers of a breach involving malware inserted on their web host’s server. The malware was reportedly inserted on the unnamed host’s server on May 19, but Fashion to Figure did not realize it until October 16, when they started investigating why a web page was loading slowly. Potentially compromised…
Noble House Hotels and Resorts notifies customers at six luxury hotels of payment card breach
Luxury hotel chain Nobel House Hotels and Resorts is notifying customers of a breach they uncovered in the wake of reports by customers of fraudulent charges on payment cards. In a letter sent to those potentially affected, Patrick R. Colee, Chairman of Noble House Hotels & Resorts, writes, in part: Through our investigation, Noble House…
FBI alerts Owensboro Health to Breach at Muhlenberg Hospital; Breach Began in January, 2012
The breach in question may have begun in January, 2012, years before OH Muhlenberg acquired Muhlenberg Community Hospital, but it potentially impacted all patients, all payment guarantors, employees and some credentialed providers after that date and before OH Muhlenberg learned of the breach and contained it. This incident does not yet appear on HHS’s public…
Bitdefender releases automated decryption tool for files locked up by Linux.Encoder.1
Steve Ragan reports that Bitdefender has figured out how to decrypt files and backups encrypted by Linux.Encoder.1, the latest ransomware causing havoc for sites. …. Exploiting this fundamental weakness, Bitdefender released a tool that will automatically decrypt any files on a victim’s system that were targeted. The tool and instructions are available on Bitdefender’s post, the…