David Giles reports: It was not the type of password reset Patty Oglivie-Evans was expecting when she reset her Credit Union MasterCard password Wednesday morning. Oglivie-Evans was having trouble logging into her account and when she decided to reset her password, she ended up seeing another persons’ account history. […] That information included yearly salary,…
Month: September 2011
Slow learning curve for DHS on infosec
Aliya Sternstein reports: Security weaknesses in the computers that track money for the Homeland Security Department could lead to a substantial mistake in the agency’s financial statements, according to a federal audit. KPMG analysts hired by the DHS inspector general to assess the department’s various financial systems for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, found about…
President of Bolivia Hacked
Once again a high ranking government website has been hacked and had a dump of data leaked. This one is from the President of Bolivia presidencia.gob.bo. The leak which contains personal information from the databases and also the databases layout. This hack comes from SwichSmoke in one of the latest government attacks that they have been…
National Retail Federation opposes Sen. Leahy’s data breach notification bill
From NRF’s press release: The National Retail Federation today voiced concern over data breach legislation set for consideration by a Senate committee, saying the bill is too broadly written and would lead to “notice fatigue” among consumers. […] French’s comments came in a letter sent today to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel…
Personal data on 25,000 NAF retirees lost
Mark Patton reports: Army officials say a CD containing the personal information of nearly 25,000 Non-Appropriated Fund retiree records was lost in the mail. The potentially compromised information contains names, Social Security numbers and other retirement data such as retirement date, type of retirement, amount of life insurance carried, term data and dates of service….
Bright House Networks notifies customers of breach
Steve Ragan learned of a data breach at Bright House Networks the hard way – by getting a breach disclosure notice as a customer. Steve describes the September 2011 letter: “Recently, we were made aware that an unauthorized source gained access to our servers and, as a result, historical customer data back to June 22,…