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IKEA investigating whether employee information was stolen at Pittsylvania Co. plant

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Dissent

IKEA is investigating its factory in Danville after an employee hired to work in human resources gave a fake social security number. The company told WDBJ7 in a statement today that person has been fired. IKEA is providing all employees in Danville with six months of free credit monitoring service as an extra security measure. More on WDBJ7….

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Report of credit card breach at Mandarin Oriental

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, upscale hotel chain Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group today confirmed that its hotels have been affected by a credit card breach. Reached for comment about reports from financial industry sources about a pattern of fraudulent charges on customer cards that had all recently been used at Mandarin hotels, the…

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Breaking up is hard to do: Law firms clash over laptops taken by departing lawyers

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Dissent

Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A battle over laptops taken by lawyers to a new law firm failed to reach a settlement last week during a three-hour session before a magistrate judge. The suit by Pennsylvania insurance boutique Nelson Brown Hamilton & Krekstein initially sought the return of laptops taken by 14 departing lawyers to Lewis,…

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CT: Probation for Coast Guard Tech Who Stole Explicit Photos

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Ari Mason reports: A former Coast Guard computer technician has been sentenced to three years of probation for stealing personal information, including account names, passwords and sexually explicit photos and videos, from hundreds of computers brought to him for repair. Larry Mathews, 34, of Pawcatuck,…

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Update to Vendini breach: Settlement reached with insurer

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Back in September 2013, online ticket broker Vendini was sued by its insurer, who, not surprisingly, did not want to have to provide coverage for a breach that may have affected up to three million customers (previous coverage of the breach and aftermath linked from here). Now the law firm of King & Spalding reports: On February…

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NY: Two-Factor Authentication May Be Coming to a Bank Near You

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

David Smyth of Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP writes: When I was at the SEC and online broker-dealers’ customers were the victims of hacking incidents, I used to wonder, why don’t the broker-dealers require multi-factor authentication to gain access to accounts? It was a silly question. I knew the answer. Multi-factor authentication is a pain and…

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