Brian Krebs reports: Sources in the financial industry tell KrebsOnSecurity they have traced a pattern of fraud on customer credit and debit cards suggesting that hackers have tapped into cash registers at Natural Grocers locations across the country. The grocery chain says it is investigating “a potential data security incident involving an unauthorized intrusion targeting limited customer payment card data.”…
Play.com customers report spam following breach at third-party marketing firm
Network Security Report reports: Play.com, one of the largest online retailers of consumer goods, has suffered a security breach. In a warning to customers, Play.com has said that customer names and email addresses may have been compromised. Play.com is washing its hands of direct responsibility, claiming that a third party on its marketing communications team…
Citizens Connect Accidentally Displayed Several Complainants’ Personal Information
Sara Morrison reports: Laura Holland was not surprised when a convenience store near her home let its dumpster overflow with garbage and didn’t shovel a path to allow the garbage truck in to collect it; she’s had issues with the store’s dumpster practices in the past. She was surprised, however, when she discovered that her…
Ca: Rogers hacked by TeamHans, customer contracts and sensitive corporate e-mails dumped
Hackers calling themselves TeamHans have hacked the giant Canadian communications and media firm, Rogers, and dumped a lot of corporate proprietary data to prove it. According to the hackers, who announced the hack on Twitter where they tweet as @TeamHans_, the dump includes: Contracts with corporate customers Sensitive corporate e-mails Sensitive documents regarding Rogers (corporate…
Ca: Star gets action from parking cops after privacy breach
Eric Lai writes: Toronto Parking Tag Operations recently “returned” a payment cheque and ticket to my mother, as it’s a Barrie-issued ticket. The thing is: neither the ticket nor cheque were hers. Mom recently paid a Toronto ticket by mail, but that’s where her involvement ends. Apparently, Toronto staff thought nothing of “returning” a personalized…
NZ: Southern District Health Board apologizes after spreadsheet with 60 patients' info sent to member of the public
Evan Harding reports that the Southern District Health Board is apologizing for a privacy breach that resulted from human error. A spread sheet containing the details of approximately 60 patients’ proposed surgery was inadvertently emailed to a member of the public. Read more on Press Reader.