John Leyden reports: BET24.com warned customers on Monday that their personal data may have been exposed by a breach that took place in December 2009. The gambling site is only warning clients 19 months after the breach, although it said it had taken other measures, including resetting passwords, at the time of the breach. The…
Month: July 2011
Austrian TV users’ bank account data acquired by hackers
Associated Press reports: The Austrian authority that collects state television fees from customers says hackers have stolen 214,000 data files from its server, including 96,000 containing sensitive bank account information. GIS says the cyberattack by a group identifying itself as “AustrAnon” occurred Friday. It said Monday that it has started informing customers whose data has…
Ca: Commissioner Cavoukian investigating the loss of Ontarians' cancer screening information
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, is investigating a privacy breach involving the personal health information of 6,490 Ontarians involved in a Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) screening program. CCO announced that the delivery of 15 Screening Activity Reports related to its ColonCancerCheck program cannot be confirmed. The delivery status of an additional 11 reports…
Estée Lauder employees notified that their data were on stolen laptop
Another day, another stolen laptop with employee data. This time it’s New York-headquartered Estée Lauder. In a notification letter dated July 13 that omits important details, the firm’s lawyer writes that the company “recently learned” about the theft of a company-issued laptop that contained names and Social Security Numbers of current and former employees and…
Another simple human error results in breach costs
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York recently notified 705 individuals of a breach following an e-mail error by a home employee. According to their letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of July 13, on April 29, the employee sent an encrypted email to a third-party…
Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research hacked by @SwichSmoke
Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research has become a target and victim of hacking and dataleaks in the latest attack by @SwichSmoke, a Venezuelan hacker group who has teamed up with anonymous to fight corrupt governments and failing security. The reason behind this attack is that the IVIC claims to be a leader in security, clearly not. They have…