Katherine Sayer reports: New Orleans restaurant Mizado Cocina says customers’ credit and debit card information could have been stolen by a hacker who breached the restaurant’s point of sale system between May 9 and July 18. The business discovered that a hacker installed a previously unidentified malware called Backoff, which targets point of sale systems, on…
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FTC Slams Wyndham Bid For Docs On Data Breach Interviews
Law360 reports: The Federal Trade Commission told a New Jersey federal judge on Friday that Wyndham Worldwide Corp. can’t demand the FTC’s work product, saying the agency sent Wyndham all the information it could about its interviews of consumers allegedly harmed by data breaches that cost over $10.6 million. Read more on Law360 (subscription required)….
Wyndham Says FTC Must Detail Consumer Harm In Data Suit
Kira Lerner reports: Wyndham Worldwide Corp. told a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission must prove that the cyberattacks against the hotel chain, which the agency alleges led to more than $10.6 million in losses, caused “substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves.” Read more…
GA: Henry County PD issues ID theft alert
Neighbor Newspapers reports: The Henry County Criminal Investigations Division and investigators from Sun Trust Bank began conducting an investigation Aug. 14 in which 225 customers’ accounts have been compromised. Customers using the Sun Trust Bank automated teller machine at 942 Hwy. 81 East, McDonough, Aug. 1 between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. may have had…
UT: Man allegedly hacked systems at work and schools to steal data, change grades
Annie Cutler reports: A 26-year-old Brigham Young University student was arrested on charges of identity theft and computer crimes. Police say Gabriel Camacho stole personal information of his co-workers, other students and even professors at BYU and the University of Utah. It all started when Camacho was fired from his job when his employer suspected…
UT: Personal data at Weber State compromised in burglary
Danielle Manley reports: Personal information of as many as 1,200 students, faculty and staff at Weber State University may have been compromised during multiple possible break-ins to computer labs. A WSU student was charged July 29 in the incident. The burglar broke in after-hours to the Science Lab Building and Building 4, said Bret Ellis,…