Seen on Slashdot, Radu Dragusin writes: IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly…
Month: September 2012
TX: Police warn of ID theft
John Ingle reports: The Wichita Falls Police Department has sent letters to potential identity theft victims, urging them to check their credit for any recent unknown activity, a department spokesperson said Monday. Joe Snyder, public information officer for WFPD, said financial crimes investigators discovered sheets of address labels with the names and addresses of hundreds…
CT: Willimantic town employees’ information was on unattended laptop stolen from employee’s office
Alison Shea reports: Willimantic police are asking for the public’s help in recovering a laptop containing town employees’ information that was stolen from Town Hall a week ago. Police said in a release late Sunday that a town employee had left the laptop unattended in his office in Windham Town Hall from 10 a.m. to…
Potential Tulsa website hacker victims notified (update: nothing to see here, move along)
Glenn Schroeder reports: The City of Tulsa’s website is still down after a hacker infiltration. And now people who submitted job applications and police reports on-line are getting letters from the city, warning their personal information may be in the hands of a hacker. In the letter the city says, “The personal information that may…
Chase’s servers compromised
High-end jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. reports an incident involving unauthorized access to JPMorgan Chase Bank’s servers. The compromised servers contained information on a Tiffany employee travel expense reimbursement system, and held the employees’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and banking account information. In its letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on September…
Facebook Now Knows What You're Buying at Drug Stores (updated)
Rebecca Greenfield writes: In an attempt to give advertisers more information about the effectiveness of ads, Facebook has partnered with Datalogix, a company that “can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores,” as The Financial Times‘s Emily Steel and April Dembosky explain. Advertisers have complained that Facebook doesn’t give them any way to…