Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Hackers scraped the personal information and payment details of customers who made purchases with the precious metals dealer JM Bullion in a cyber attack which lasted six months earlier this year. JM Bullion discovered in July that malicious code had been embedded into its online shopping platform, enabling hackers to capture the information that customers…
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ShopRite, Wakefern will pay $235k fine, improve security after massive data breach, AG says
Sophie Nieto-Munoz reports: ShopRite and its parent company, Wakefern Food Corporation, will pay $235,000 after two supermarkets threw away electronic devices exposing thousands of customers’ medical information, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Monday. The company will also have to improve its data security after they failed to protect the information of more than 9,700 pharmaceutical customers…
KR: Court orders online mall to compensate 2,400 customers for data leak
Depending on how long you have been following this blog, some of you may not remember the Interpark data breach in South Korea in 2016. I had covered it several times, including when it was fined $3.8 million (the largest fine up until that date) for its failure to protect consumer data from from what…
New Haven Health Department failed to terminate former employee’s access to protected health information
The City of New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven) has agreed to pay $202,400 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to implement a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The…
ICO fines Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep customers’ personal data secure
From the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): The ICO has fined Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep millions of customers’ personal data secure. Marriott estimates that 339 million guest records worldwide were affected following a cyber-attack in 2014 on Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. The attack, from an unknown source, remained undetected until…
Taiwan’s UMC pleads guilty, fined $60 mln in trade secret theft case
Reuters reports: Taiwan’s UMC has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft in the United States and will pay a $60 million fine in a case where it was accused of helping a Chinese state-owned chipmaker steal secrets from Micron Technology Inc. The fine is the second-largest ever in a criminal trade secret prosecution, the U.S….