Aliya Sternstein reports: Compensation files for U.S. Postal Service workers might also have been breached during a recent hack that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data on about 800,000 USPS employees, a postal inspector said Wednesday. […] “We’re still conducting forensic analysis of the impacted servers,” said Randy Miskanic, incident commander on the…
Month: November 2014
Again? Irish Water sends customer’s private details to the wrong person
TheJournal.ie reports: A Dublin-based businessman has accused Irish Water staff of a catalogue of “shocking” errors which led up to his personal information being emailed to the wrong person. Read more on TheJournal.ie
Dutch police investigate security breach after confidential files are found via Google
DutchNews.nl reports: Dozens of confidential police files have ended up in the public domain following an internet security leak, the NRC says on Wednesday. The files concern murders, armed robberies, gangs and suspect jihadis. The information was easy to find using internet search engine Google, the paper says. Police have confirmed the leak and taken…
House, Senate Democrats seek details from financial firms on data breaches
Mark Hosenball reports: Leading Democrats in both houses of Congress sent letters on Tuesday to 16 major banks and other financial firms requesting detailed information about recent data breaches and briefings from corporate data security officials. Among the companies targeted in letters sent by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Representative…
Staples Confirms POS Malware Attack
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Staples is now confirming that there was a malware-related breach, although it’s offering scant additional information. “We are continuing to investigate a data security incident involving an intrusion into some of our retail point-of-sale and computer systems,” Staples spokesman Mark Cautela tells Information Security Media Group. “We believe we have eradicated…
UK: NHS Grampian out of compliance with Data Protection Act – again.
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Grampian Health Board (NHS Grampian) to take action to make sure patients’ information is better protected. The warning comes after six data breaches within a thirteen month period where papers containing sensitive personal data were left abandoned in public areas of the hospital…