Kim Zetter has a nice human-interest piece over on Threat Level about those involved in the TJX hack: Accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez called his credit card theft ring “Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin.” He spent $75,000 on a birthday party for himself and once complained that he had to manually count $340,000…
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Pointer: The TJX Case: It Lives! With a New Theory of Liability: “Unfairness”
David Navetta has an interesting piece on InfoSec Compliance that begins this way: Little know (or at least discussed) fact: despite announcing settlements with VISA and Mastercard in 2007, the TJX data security litigation is still going. In fact most of the issuing banks impacted by the TJX breach are no longer pursuing TJX and/or…
Revising the Top 10 Data Loss Incidents list
It’s been a while since I posted a list of the largest breaches or data loss incidents. My list often does not totally match others’ lists because of different criteria and sources that I use, but we’re often pretty close in our lists. This time, however, my list will likely appear significantly different, due, in…
TJX Maxx hacker banged up for 30 years
John E. Dunn reports: Maksym Yastremskiy, the Ukrainian accused of being a key figure in the infamous TJX Maxx Wi-Fi hack of 2005, has been sentenced to 30-years in prison by a Turkish court. Yastremskiy – or ‘Maksik’ as he was sometimes identified – was one of 11 people eventually arrested at the request of…