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…
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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…
MAPCO Express sued over data breach
Another potential class-action lawsuit has been filed in response to the MAPCO Express breach, reported previously on this blog. The suit also names the convenience chain’s parent company, Delek U.S. Holdings Inc., as defendants. Read more on Tuscaloosa News. The complaint by Ian Yeager was filed on June 17, and an amended complaint (uploaded here)…
NC: ABC Store information hack more widespread than Greensboro
Mitch Carr reports: The State Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission revealed Thursday that credit card information for customers at ABC stores in Greensboro and elsewhere had been compromised. In an email , public affairs director Agnes Stevens said, “It appears that an outside scammer has hacked into the computer/sales system used by Greensboro and several other…
Former UCM student sentenced for stealing student and faculty info
Following up on the indictment of two former University of Central Missouri students for stealing faculty and student information for commercial gain, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri issued a press release today that one of the defendants has been sentenced to three years in prison plus restitution: Tammy Dickinson, United…