Eric Katz reports: The American Postal Workers Union filed a complaint on Monday to the National Labor Relations Board for the Postal Service’s failure to adequately consult with the group over the security failure. APWU President Mark Dimondstein said USPS should have bargained with the union over the “impact of the security breach.” “We are demanding…
Month: November 2014
Eastern Iowa Airport reveals customer data breach
AP reports: The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids is revealing a data breach that may compromise the credit card information of customers who paid to park there. The airport said Tuesday that customers who used credit and debit cards to pay for public parking between Sept. 29 and Oct. 29 are at risk and…
AMMO TO GO’S remarkable response to data breach
Nasir Pasha, Esq. writes: Earlier this month, AmmoToGo.com, an online ammunition retailer, sent out an e-mail to customers disclosing the theft of consumer information including e-mail addresses and passwords. The e-mail provided a link to a password reset page and offered assistance to stop possible SPAM from anyone who might have purchased the list. It’s a remarkably pro-active…
In: Massive data breach at CIDCO’s website
Yogesh Sadhwani reports: The personal records of about 85,000 applicants to the City and Industrial Development Corporation‘s (CIDCO) housing scheme have inadvertently been made public by the government establishment. Details such as residential address, mobile number, Permanent Account Number (PAN), bank account number, Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) information related to their bank accounts and…
UK: Company director fined for illegally accessing mobile phone company’s customer database
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A company director has been fined after illegally accessing one of Everything Everywhere’s (EE) customer databases. Matthew Devlin, 25, from Halifax, Yorkshire, used details of when customers were due a mobile phone upgrade to target them with services offered by his own telecoms companies. He had impersonated a member of…
UK: Employee at Bradford-based Morrisons faces fraud charge over staff data theft
There’s an update to a breach reported earlier this year. Telegraph & Argus reports: A Morrisons employee has been charged with fraud after an investigation into the theft of payroll data from the supermarket firm relating to thousands of members of staff. Andrew Skelton has also been charged with an offence under the Computer Misuse Act and…