Tom Webb reports: Target is asking a federal judge in St. Paul to dismiss a multibillion-dollar complaint filed by groups of banks stemming from last year’s massive data breach. The banks claim Target was negligent in its handling of shoppers’ credit and debit card information, which allowed hackers to steal sensitive information about some 100…
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A file in the wrong place led to discovery of CSU-East Bay’s breach
Karina Ioffee provides additional details on the CSU – East Bay breach reported yesterday: The intrusion on August 23, 2013 by an unknown person using malicious software was discovered August 11 during a routine security check by the university’s technology department, said Jeff Bliss, a university spokesman. Bliss said university IT workers found that there…
More details start to emerge about Summit County Fair breach
Thanks to some solid reporting by David Burger, we now have some more details about the Summit County Fair data breach reported previously on this blog: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the Summit County Sheriff’s Office in investigating a security breach that resulted from a third-party vendor selling tickets to two events at…
CSU- East Bay discloses data breach that went undiscovered for one year
Dennis Culver reports: California State University officials said today the university’s East Bay information security team has discovered a breach in a web server used to store personal employee information. Officials said the security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year. The university learned through the subsequent investigation…
WI: Personal information on city website
Holy screw-up, Batman! Shaun Dinck reports: Personal information from hundreds of property owners was available on the City of Beloit’s website, and the city doesn’t know for sure how long it was online. The information available was in the Document Center on the city’s website, and included Social Security numbers, dates of birth and possible…
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.