Jonathan Weisman reports: In politics, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. Republicans and Democrats, and groups sympathetic to each, spend millions on sophisticated technology to gain an advantage. They do it to exploit vulnerabilities and to make their own information secure. But sometimes, a simple coding mistake can lay bare documents and…
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Man sentenced for using U. Hawaii Foundation money to pay gambling debt
The Star-Advertiser reports: A former University of Hawaii Foundation employee is not going to prison for using scholarship money to pay off a gambling debt. A federal judge sentenced Dodge Watson, 34, to three years’ probation Monday for forging the signatures of other foundation employees to get approval for a $2,000 scholarship check made payable…
NCQA spots – and stops – ecommerce breach quickly
How quickly can your organization detect and stop a breach? It looks like the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) caught one pretty quickly, as it only affected customers making online purchases on September 3 between 2 am and 10 am. They called those affected, and by September 5, were sending out letters to those…
Third-party vendor in Goodwill breach identified
idRADAR.com has uncovered an important detail in the Goodwill Industries breach – the identity of the third-party vendor. They report that it’s C&K Systems. Read more on idRADAR.com.
Update: Goodwill POS malware breach impacted 868,000 credit and debit cards
Max Smolaks reports: US charity Goodwill Industries International has announced the results of a six week long investigation into a suspected data breach, admitting that around 868,000 customer credit and debit cards have been compromised. Read more on TechWeek Europe.
Goodwill starts identifying stores impacted by payment processor breach
Following up on a breach first disclosed by Brian Krebs: Goodwill Industries of Kansas has released a list of twenty stores across the state affected by a security breach it announced in July. The charity said it confirmed the breach after an extensive investigation. The Goodwill said the stores affected used the same third-party vendor to…