The Irish Data Protection Commisioner is investigating Adobe in relation to last year’s theft of source code and data from 38 million customers. PC Pro Magazine reports that this is in response to complaints from UK residents about spam being received on email accounts that had been exclusively used for Adobe registration. GigaOm points out […]
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Data Commisioner Confirms Credit Card Data Was Not Encrypted
The Irish Times is reporting that the Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has confirmed that the compromised credit card data at LoyaltyBuild had been stored in an unencrypted form – together with the 3-digit CVV number from the backs of the cards. When first reporting the breach last week, the company had claimed that all […]