Mark Hachman reports: Sony will testify at a House privacy hearing on June 2, after earlier refusing to appear. In a letter to lawmakers, Sony also provided more details about the attacks. An aide for Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.), chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, said…
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Is Sony getting a bad rap on its data breach?
There may be a lot of justifiable criticism of Sony in terms of security, but as I’ve commented previously on this blog, I don’t think “delayed notification” when they discovered they were breached was one of their sins. Robert McMillan reports: Sony didn’t show up for last week’s Capitol Hill hearing on its massive data…
Congress not happy with Sony, Sony not happy with Anonymous, and gamers just unhappy, period.
Not a great day for Sony. First they got slammed at a Congressional hearing on data theft for not being willing to come testify. Representative Mary Bono Mack, Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, said: As Chairman of this Subcommittee, I am deeply troubled by these latest data breaches, and the decision by both Epsilon and Sony…
Best Buy Customers Beware: Another Email Security Breach
MB Quirk of The Consumerist cites an email from Best Buy to its customers – and no, this is apparently not the Epsilon breach, but yet another breach involving Best Buy customers: Dear Valued Best Buy Customer, We have discovered that a former business partner’s files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers…
The Children’s Place breach due to compromise of their login credentials; CheetahMail not breached – spokesperson
When I saw a press release yesterday from The Children’s Place indicating that their unnamed email service provider had been hacked, I thought it was a reference to the Epsilon breach. It wasn’t. The Children’s Place is a customer of Experian’s Cheetahmail service. A notice from The Children’s Place on ebm.cheetahmail.com says: Dear Customer, Yesterday…
Pryor Urges FTC to Investigate Data Breach that Exposes Millions of Consumers
U.S. Senator Mark Pryor has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the Chairman to investigate the recent data breach of Epsilon, an online marketing firm that handles email lists for companies such as Target, Best Buy, Walgreens, and Citi Group. Pryor said the information that was stolen is likely limited to e-mail…