Clare Kennedy reports: Supervalu Inc. reported a second data breach, saying hackers infiltrated point of sale terminals at four Twin Cities Cub Foods grocery stores in late August or September. Customer credit card information may have been taken from the Hastings, Shakopee, Roseville (Har Mar Mall) and White Bear Lake stores. Read more on Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal….
Category: Malware
Signature Systems Breach Expands
Brian Krebs reports: Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving some 216 Jimmy John’s sandwich shop locations, now says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants across the country that use its products. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.
WA: Yakima County office computers no longer have virus
Ada Chong reports: A computer virus that hit some Yakima County offices has been fixed. It hit machines in the prosecutor’s office, the courts and the Department of Corrections medical office. The virus encrypted content of attached drives on three computers. It caused a screen to pop up and ask the user for money. There’s…
Operation Harkonnen Malware disguised as ‘harmless Adware’
Michael Shuff reports: Further details are emerging today of the methods used in the massive and long-lasting Operation Harkonnen cyber attack (‘Harkonnen Hack’) methodology that has allegedly exposed the data of 300 leading European organisations since 2003. The victims of the German gang thought to be responsible include banks, government organisations and major corporations, most…
Data on up to 750,000 Japan Airlines mileage club members may have leaked
Kyodo reports: Japan Airlines Co. said Wednesday that personal information on up to 750,000 JAL mileage club members may have leaked after someone gained unauthorized access to the company’s computer system The data include members’ names, addresses, birthdays and email addresses, the company said, adding that it has not confirmed the leak of passwords or…
Home Depot breach prompts class action in Canada, too
Richard Blackwell reports: Martin Knuth has made so many purchases at Home Depot that he regards the store as “my second home.” But the recent security breach at the home renovation retailer upset Mr. Knuth, a retiree who lives in Regina, Sask., so much that he volunteered to become the representative plaintiff in the first…