A breach involving Carson Village Market, reported previously on this blog, continues to result in new fraudulent charges on customers’ cards, and customers who used their card since January 1 are now being advised to cancel their cards. WOOD has the story.
Category: U.S.
NYC transit agency has data breach
AP reports: The personal information of approximately 15,000 New York City Transit Authority workers has been found on a compact disc inside a refurbished computer sold by a retailer. Authorities are investigating how the CD found its way into the computer drive. Read more on My San Antonio.
TX: Resident Finds Unshredded Copies of Personal Documents in Apartment Dumpster
Alicia Neaves reports: On Tuesday morning, a resident of the Palms Apartments in Odessa made a disturbing discovery. […] NewsWest 9 remained with the resident until police arrived to pick up the bag. Once officers arrived, apartment management kicked us off the property. To find out if it was the apartment complex who threw these…
Target ignored its own warning system – Bloomberg (updated)
I’m watching Josh Tyrangiel of Bloomberg on CBS News this morning reporting that prior to its massive breach, Target ignored the warning alerts generated by its FireEye system. Target hasn’t responded to Bloomberg’s questions as to why the warning e-mails generated by the system were ignored. Interestingly, we heard something similar in the Neiman-Marcus breach where…
Seattle Archdiocese, FBI investigating data breach (update- may affect 90,000)
John Langeler reports: Most people would enjoy getting a $7,000 check in the mail. In the case of one West Seattle man, all the check indicated was his identity had been stolen. “The check had my Social Security Number on it as well as another woman’s name,” he said, asking us not to release his name,…
Security firm report says Target data hack was low tech
Jennifer Bjorhus reports: The U.S. Secret Service has called the criminals behind Target Corp.’s monster security breach well-organized, “highly technical” and “sophisticated.” But cybersecurity firm McAfee Inc. said in a report out Monday that the heist was anything but exotic, describing the attack as a Breach 101 operation. The thieves used easily modified off-the-shelf malware, common methods…