Tracy Kitten reports: A cyber-attack that hit Harbor Freight Tools and likely exposed card data processed at all 400 of its retail tool stores could rank among one of the biggest retail breaches this year, one card issuer says. In fact, the issuer, who asked to remain anonymous, says compromised cards linked to the Harbor Freight attack…
Category: Of Note
Smartphone Experts notifies customers of hack (Update 5)
From the this-doesn’t-sound-good dept.: Smartphone Experts discovered that the system used for customer payments for online shopping had been hacked. Although stored customer data were encrypted, Diana Kingree, the Senior Vice President of Commerce, noted that the hacker may have been able to use a decryption feature of the system to view customers’ names, addresses,…
Flaw in E-mailing System Exposes Millions of Mexicans’ E-mails
Bogdan Botezatu reports: A massive numbers of Prodigy subscribers in Mexico have had their email conversations exposed overnight because of a security flaw in the company’s mobile e-mail and web-based mail systems. According to a news report by El Economista, the flaw allowed search engines to simply index private conversations and list them on the…
5 hackers charged in largest data breach scheme in U.S. (updated)
David Voreacos reports: Four Russians and a Ukrainian were charged for their role in the largest hacking and data breach scheme in U.S. history, according to Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. The five conspired in a “worldwide scheme that targeted major corporate networks, stole more than 160 million credit card numbers and resulted…
Federal judge allows organizations to file amicus briefs concerning Wyndham’s motion to dismiss FTC lawsuit
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A federal court judge in New Jersey on Wednesday agreed to allow the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other organizations to seek the dismissal of a closely watched data breach lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Read more on Computerworld. I’ve previously uploaded and covered some…
Resource: State by state data breach notification laws
Perkins Coie has compiled an updated resource (141 pages) of state data breach notification laws: