Oi veh. Kevin Roose reports: Along with the files smuggled out of Sony Pictures this week, we also discovered a cache of documents apparently relating to internal personnel matters at Deloitte. This appears to be an accident of circumstance. The files appear to come from a single target’s computer. While this person appears to be…
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Banks: Credit Card Breach at Bebe Stores (updated)
Brian Krebs reports that it appears that customer payment card data from BeBe‘s has been hacked. Update: BeBe has now confirmed the breach. As Reuters reports: The exposed data may have included cardholder names, account numbers, expiration dates and verification codes, the apparel retailer said on Friday. The company said the affected transactions were made…
Yet another Experian data breach
On November 20, Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of yet another breach involving the compromise of a client’s login credentials to their credit report database. The credentials were misused to obtain identity information on an unspecified number of consumers’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and/or account numbers. In this case, the…
Hackers Infiltrate Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator
Mike Lennon reports additional details on a breach noted previously on this blog: SP+, a company that provides parking, maintenance and security services to property owners, said on Friday that an unauthorized attacker gained access to its payment processing systems and was able to access customer names and payment card information. The company said that…
More from the Sony Pictures hack: Budgets, Layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 SSN
Kevin Roose reports: Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace. The document, which listed the names, titles, and salaries of more than 6,000 Sony Pictures employees including senior executives (and may have revealed…
Target fails to end banks’ lawsuit over data breach
Jonathan Stempel reports: A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Target Corp’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by banks seeking to recoup money they spent reimbursing fraudulent charges and issuing new credit and debit cards because of the retailer’s late 2013 data breach. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota said Target played a…