KATU reports: The reason for why about 30 people had their credit card and debit card numbers stolen in sandy: A computer malware or virus apparently infected a local merchant’s computer, police say. Investigators believe the business is Sandy’s Dairy Queen, but are still looking into other potential compromised businesses, such as the Fred Meyer…
Category: Malware
Quayside breach update
It seems that the breach notification letter received by residents of New Hampshire may have contained more information than the letter received by Vermont residents. In a letter dated June 21 (the same date as the letter quoted here), Quayside added a statement that there were 639 orders affecting 532 customers, from all areas combined,…
St. Mary’s Bank notifies more than 115,000 customers after malware infection discovered
St. Mary’s Bank is a state-chartered community-based credit union in New Hampshire. On May 26, they discovered that one of their workstations was infected with malware that could have captured anything displayed on the screen. A forensic investigation discovered that 23 workstations could have been infected with the malware as early as February 2013. Although…
Restaurant’s lawsuit against Micros Systems goes to trial Monday
Cotton Patch Cafe‘s lawsuit against Micros goes to trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Monday. I had posted some of the background on this case back in July 2011, here. The restaurant sued Micros after it was hacked and customers’ credit card information was stolen. Now Gary Haber reports: The lawsuit alleges that…
Appeals Court Sends Fiserv Data Breach Case Back to Trial
Robert McGarvey reports that a credit union’s lawsuit against Fiserv has been resurrected by a Tennessee court: The Court of Appeals in Tennessee, in a ruling filed July 3, ruled that a lower court erred when it dismissed a suit filed by Copper Basin Federal Credit Union and CUMIS against Fiserv Inc., wherein the plaintiffs…
Quayside Publishing notifies online customers of breach
Customers who ordered from one of Quayside Publishing‘s web sites since the end of April recently received a notice of a breach that was reported to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office: We are writing to notify you of an incident that involved unauthorized access to our web server in which your personal information, including your…