Maury Glover reports: It’s been months since hackers stole the credit and debit card information of millions of Target customers, but the effects are far from over. In fact, thousands of Minnesota credit card numbers are currently for sale. […] In the wake of the breach, Target told customers not to cancel their credit cards…
Category: Malware
Boomerang Tags customers notified of payment card data breach
Boomerang Tags, a company that sells pet tags and collars, has joined the ranks of e-commerce sites compromised by malware. In a letter dated April 25th to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Don Carrick, the owner of BoomerangTags.com, writes that the malware was inserted on or before July 4, 2013, and was first discovered by…
Michaels Stores (finally) confirms breach affecting 2.6M cards at Michaels, 400K at Aaron Brothers
Michaels Stores, who announced on January 25 that they had been informed of a possible breach that they were investigating, has now (finally) confirmed the breach first reported by Brian Krebs. Posted on their web site today: In January, we notified you that we might have experienced a data security incident. We wanted you to…
Hackers target 55,000 VFW members (updated)
Jermont Terry reports: Local veterans said they are just learning now their identities may have be stolen from the VFW. Cyber hackers broke into the agency’s website and likely compromised military plans, not to mention the peace of mind of vets. This security breach happened back in February but it seems the thousands of vets…
Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all
Sean Gallagher reports on an interesting revelation concerning the second data breach at the University of Maryland: A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and telling all on reddit. David Helkowski was working…
Is delaying notification for law enforcement purposes ever unreasonable?
Over on Security Bistro, Linda Musthaler discusses the recently disclosed Spec’s breach and the fact that Spec’s knew about the breach but was asked not to disclose it by law enforcement. We’ve seen this many times – delays in notification so as not to interfere with a law enforcement investigation. But should there be some…