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ME: Port Clyde General Store discloses breach due to malware (Update2)

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Dissent

Stephen Betts reports: The Port Clyde General Store was one of hundreds of companies across the country that had data from its customers’ credit cards breached by hackers recently. Attorney Stephen Hayes of Augusta, who represents the store, confirmed that the market was notified by police on May 21 that its system for processing credit…

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Public Citizen and Chris Hoofnagle file amicus brief in FTC v. Wyndham

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Dissent

You can read their brief here.  Their brief incorporates some of the issues I discussed in my previous blog entry on this case earlier today, and I’m glad to see it.

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FTC Fires Back In Lawsuit Against Wyndham

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Dissent

Brent Kendall reports: The Federal Trade Commission is offering a strong defense of its powers to police cybersecurity practices against a challenge by Wyndham Worldwide Corp. We wrote about Wyndham’s challenge earlier this month in a case involving attacks by hackers on the hotel chain’s computer systems between 2008 and 2010. The FTC sued Wyndham last year…

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GA: Callaway Gardens alerts customers of potential credit card fraud

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Dissent

Chuck Williams reports that a number of companies have been notified by card processors of what may be a major breach. In Callaway Gardens’ case, it seems to involve malware, but the other companies affected are not named nor whether the same malware was involved in their compromises: Consumers who have used credit or debit…

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Stockton Police Chief Arrested for Identity Theft Stemming from Love Triangle

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Dissent

Another case where someone in law enforcement hacked and misused a law enforcement database for personal reasons? The chief of police is the last person you expect to be arrested, but on Tuesday deputies from the Jo Daviess Sheriff’s Department took Stockton Police Chief Robert Beeter into custody.  Beeter’s charges of 16 counts of identity theft…

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Are TerraCom and YourTel the poster children for how NOT to respond to a breach?

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Dissent

Isaac Wolf reports: A month ago, two phone carriers participating in a federal benefit program were alerted that sensitive customer records, including Social Security numbers and bank-account records, were freely posted online. Now, Oklahoma-based TerraCom Inc. and affiliate YourTel America Inc. — the companies that collected the records — say they don’t plan to notify…

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