Following up on a previously noted breach, five people have been indicted in the acquisition and misuse of nearly two dozen Saks Fifth Avenue customers’ information.
Month: October 2014
IE: Credit Union private detectives fined €10,500 over data breach
More on the case noted earlier today on this blog, from Independent.ie: The directors of a private detective agency have been fined more than €10,000 for using “subterfuge” to illegally obtain the addresses of credit union clients in arrears. Private detectives posed as a VEC and hospital worker in order to obtain PPS numbers and…
Investigators accessed social welfare information and disclosed to credit unions
From RTÉ: Two directors of a private investigation company have admitted accessing social welfare information and disclosing it to a credit union. Margaret Stuart and Wendy Martin, both directors of MCK Rentals Ltd of Trafalgar Road in Greystones pleaded guilty at Bray District Court today to consenting, conniving or neglecting to stop alleged breaches of…
Major security breach at Dominica Registry
The Dominican reports: Police in Dominica are reporting a major security breach at Dominica’s Central Registry Office with the disappearance of the keys to the institution’s offices. The keys disappeared seemingly into thin air from the Headquarters of the Police Force where it was been held for safe keeping. Chief Registrar Ossie Walsh told the local…
Vulnerable Disclosures obtains information on 10 banks breached
Vulnerable Disclosures – a blog that seems to be re-posting some of my work from here and from PHIprivacy.net without any permission or even attribution – posted this: Russian hackers have posted information on 10 US banks that have been breached in the past week and a half and are threatening to post additional information. Vulnerable Disclosures…
Politicians Cynically Using JP Morgan Hack To Try To Pass Laws To Diminish Your Privacy
Mike Masnick writes: So, as you probably heard last week, JP Morgan revealed more details of how it had been hacked, noting that the number of households impacted shot up to 76 million, thus impacting a pretty large percentage of Americans. The hack involved getting access to customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. It doesn’t…