Tiffany Hsu reports: Retail heavyweights such as J.C. Penney, Gap, Nike and Walgreen are joining forces with the Retail Industry Leaders Assn. to try to protect the industry from hackers and other cybercriminals. On Wednesday the companies and the trade group launched an intelligence-sharing center designed to prevent the kind of data breach that struck…
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PA: Hackers breach Paytime, Inc. payroll company
Joshua Vaughn reports: One Midstate payroll company is working to address security issues after discovering hackers had breached its security and accessed client information. In a written statement, Paytime Inc. of Upper Allen Township said it discovered a security breach on April 30. A subsequent investigation by third-party forensic IT experts found that the intruders…
OR: Portland radio contestants data breached
Amy Frazier reports: Entercom, the owner of eight radio stations in the Portland area, had data containing personal information from listeners and staff stolen from a car in late February. As many as 13,000 people are affected. Officials with Entercom alerted Portland police after the theft happened on February 28 on SE 17th between Burnside…
About 50K transactions, other data, compromised in three-month breach
Adam Greenberg reports: Arizona-based Gingerbread Shed Corporation is notifying customers that an unauthorized individual gained access to its systems for roughly three months and may have compromised about 50,000 transactions, as well as other data. Read more on SC Magazine. In addition to California, this incident was also reported to Vermont residents.
Autistic Hacker, “Eekdacat,” Helped FBI Nail Anonymous hacker, “Kayla”
William Bastone and Andrew Goldberg report: In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun…
PREIT discloses breach involving employee data hosted on UltiPro
Philadelphia-based PREIT (Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust) became the latest firm to disclose that its Human Resources information on employees and their dependents and beneficiaries had been accessed by an unknown third party from an UltiPro-hosted system. PREIT learned of the breach on April 16. In April, when Brian Krebs first reported on breaches associated…