EASTHAMPTON — Local bankers said this week that data breaches at some retailers in Easthampton and Southampton, including Big E’s Supermarket, appear to be over, thanks partly to businesses’ efforts to upgrade security. […] During the height of the fraudulent activity, bankers and law enforcement officials refused to release the names of the businesses affected…
Category: Malware
Arkansas State University-Beebe alerts students and employees to potential breach
Arkansas State University-Beebe issued a precautionary notice of a potential data breach regarding personally identifiable information of students and employees at its campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy and the Little Rock Air Force Base. The infected server did not contain credit card information for any current or former student or employee. On October…
Will this lesson be learned?
When I saw the headline, “Class action lawsuit seeks to send message about the importance of safeguarding data,” I thought, “Oh, puhleese, how many times are we going to claim we’re just trying to send a message? Why haven’t they gotten it already?” But then I kept reading a news story by Joel Griffin, and…
BreyerHorse.com site compromised for 18 months
Reeves International is notifying consumers who made purchases on BreyerHorses.com that their personal information may have been compromised in a breach that went undetected for 18 months. In a letter to those affected, Arthur Minnocci, CFO, writes: On September 9, 2014, we learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on the computer server hosting the Breyer Horses…
Cyberswim notifying online customers of breach at web host (UPDATED)
Uh oh. Any consumer notification template that reports a breach due to malware injection on the web host’s server and/or includes [INSERT SITE NAME HERE] doesn’t bode well, especially when the compromise lasted for more than three months before being detected. See Cyberswim‘s template notification letter, here (pdf). I don’t see any notification on their web site…
Home Depot now facing 21 class-action lawsuits over data breach
David Allison provides a litigation update here. The next question is how many of them will be dismissed because of lack of standing.