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P&N Bank in Perth, Australia, says a server upgrade gone wrong led to the breach of sensitive personal information in its customer relationship management system. The CRM system contains names, mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, customer numbers, ages, account numbers, account balances and what the bank described as other "Nonsensitive" data related to interactions with customers.
On January 13, 2020, a federal court approved the proposed settlement for the class action suit filed against Equifax over the massive data breach it disclosed in September 2017. As announced in July 2019, impacted individuals have until January 22, 2020, to submit claims for the free credit monitoring services or the alternative reimbursement compensation offered in the settlement, to receive reimbursement for Equifax services, or to receive reimbursement for out-of-pocket losses and/or time spent dealing with the data breach.
P&N Bank has notifed customers of a data breach that resulted in a large amount of sensitive information being compromised. Passwords, birthdate, health information, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, social security numbers, tax file numbers, and credit card numbers were not included in the breach, the bank says.
The logs record when someone uses the Peekaboo app and the specific action they took at a certain point in time, such as uploading data or content. Exposed data includes email addresses, detailed device data and often, links to photos and videos, all of which get stored on servers hosted by Singapore-based Alibaba Cloud.
The UK Data Protection Regulator has issued a monetary penalty of £500,000 against Dixon Carphone for what it describes as "Multiple, systemic and serious inadequacies" in the firm's security posture. This allowed Dixons to argue that the PAN was not personal data, and that this aspect of the breach was consequently not subject to the personal data focus of the data protection laws.
Dining giant Landry's disclosed a data breach, Thursday, warning that malware had infected its order-entry systems to steal customers' payment card information. Landry's, which owns over 600 popular American restaurants across 35 states, such as Del Frisco's Grill, McCormick & Schmick's, Rainforest Café and more, said that 63 of these restaurants were impacted by malware that targeted customers' payment card data.
The Wawa convenience store chain is facing a wave of lawsuits over a data breach that affected its 850 locations along the East Coast. read more
Wawa said that payment-processing system malware had potentially affected all 850 of its locations.
The Wawa convenience store chain says a data breach may have collected debit and credit card information from thousands of customers. read more