Discover and American Express often submit copies of their breach notification letters to cardmembers to state attorneys general. Their letters, however, generally do not include the name of a breached merchant, so it is often difficult to know what to make of their submissions. But one particular American Express notification, submitted to California last week, caught…
Month: August 2013
8 Cook Islands Government Sites Breached and left Defaced
The cook islands is small, made up from 15 islands in the south pacific islands and is associated with New Zealand. Hackers using the handles HeRoTurk and Ajanlar.org today have posted to pastebin a small list of 8 websites that have been breached and left with a new file named, x.htm. The websites that have…
Missouri Credit Union contacts customers about accidental web exposure of SSN and account information
KDSK reports: Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is warning customers of a local credit union to monitor their accounts following an accidental release of personal information earlier this summer. Koster’s office became aware of the glitch at Missouri Credit Union when a member contacted them. Officials at the credit union told Koster that customer information…
United Shore Financial and Shore Mortgage report hacks involving client financial information
Back on March 20, United Shore Financial Services, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had experienced an intrusion into a server containing mortgage applicants’ names, contact information, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The letter did not specify whether the server was their own server…
Fed Evaluating Breach of Employee Data With Law Enforcement
Jeff Kearns reports: The Federal Reserve is working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the posting of employee data on a website today. The central bank’s critical operations weren’t affected, the Fed said. Individuals claiming to be part of the hacker group known as Anonymous posted what they said were “full details of every single employee at…
Advocate Medical Group notifying 4 million patients after burglars snatch unencrypted computers
Advocate Medical Group and its parent, Advent Healthcare, may have just bought themselves a heap of problems. Storing more than 20 year-old personally identifiable data including Social Security numbers on unencrypted computers with less than strong physical security doesn’t bode well for any investigation by HHS or Illinois’s Attorney General. (corrected name on medical group)