Details continue to emerge surrounding the security breach involving customer’s financial data at LoyaltyBuild. The ESB has confirmed that 6,700 of its customers have had non-financial data compromised in the attack. According to The Irish Times: Loyaltybuild said the further data breaches, yet to be publicised, had only come to light late yesterday evening and […]
Information security expert Brian Honan joins Conn Ó Muíneacháin to disccuss the issues surrounding the revelation this week that the full, unencrypted credit card details of 500,000 people have been stolen from LoyaltyBuild in Co. Clare. Brian Honan runs BH Consulting and is a founder of IRISS-CERT, the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service. IRISS-CERT is a voluntary […]
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 […]
Tá go leor ceisteanna inniu faoin sárú slándála ag an gcomhlacht LoyaltyBuild, inar goideadh sonraí na gcártaí creidmheasa le leathmhilliún duine ar fud na hEorpa. Tá fiosrúcháin ar bun ag na Gárdaí agus ag An Coimisinéir Cosanta Sonraí. Níl heol dúinn an scéal iomlán go fóill, ach tá beidh fiosrúchán an Choimisinéara dírithe go speisialta ar […]
The Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has sent inspectors to the offices of LoyaltyBuild in Ennis, Co. Clare, after it was revealed that the credit card data of 500,000 users in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe had been stolen. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, Mr Hawkes told Pat Kenny that the criminals obtained “full credit […]
