From their web site today: Last Tuesday, September 2, we disclosed that we were investigating a possible breach of our payment data systems. We want you to know that we have now confirmed that those systems have in fact been breached, which could potentially impact any customer that has used their payment card at our…
Category: Malware
Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target
Brian Krebs reports: The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot was aided in part by a new variant of the same malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers at Target last December, according to sources close to the investigation. […] A source close to the…
A file in the wrong place led to discovery of CSU-East Bay’s breach
Karina Ioffee provides additional details on the CSU – East Bay breach reported yesterday: The intrusion on August 23, 2013 by an unknown person using malicious software was discovered August 11 during a routine security check by the university’s technology department, said Jeff Bliss, a university spokesman. Bliss said university IT workers found that there…
CSU- East Bay discloses data breach that went undiscovered for one year
Dennis Culver reports: California State University officials said today the university’s East Bay information security team has discovered a breach in a web server used to store personal employee information. Officials said the security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year. The university learned through the subsequent investigation…
Update: Goodwill POS malware breach impacted 868,000 credit and debit cards
Max Smolaks reports: US charity Goodwill Industries International has announced the results of a six week long investigation into a suspected data breach, admitting that around 868,000 customer credit and debit cards have been compromised. Read more on TechWeek Europe.
Target Wants Banks’ Claims Tossed In Data Breach MDL
This is where lawyers earn their keep: Target Corp. urged a Minnesota federal judge on Tuesday to toss a consolidated class action over the company’s massive data breach, arguing that the bank plaintiffs cannot claim negligence because they do not have a direct relationship with Target. Target argues that under state law, merchants aren’t liable…