Kelly Fiveash reports: Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to go public about a serious data breach affecting nearly 2.5 million customers – with the confession that up to 90,000 subscribers may have had their credit card info ransacked. The company said in a statement on Saturday afternoon that it had first discovered its systems…
Month: August 2015
UK: Job recruiters network JobsatTEAM hacked
Another day, another SQLinjection attack by JM511 (@JM511 on Twitter). This time, it’s U.K. site, jobsatteam.com. TEAM describes themselves as the largest network of independent job recruiters. JM511 dumped the administrator’s table with 12 individuals’ email addresses, usernames, passwords, full names, and telephone numbers. There’s also a dump of 2,590 members’ names, usernames, passwords (some unencrypted),…
Man affiliated with Anonymous #OpAustralia returns to court August 11th
DataBreaches.net has previously reported on the case of Mathew Hutchison, a young Australian who found himself on the wrong side of the law for attempting to redirect the Indonesian faction of Anonymous away from businesses and not-for-profits in Australia. Hutchison ran afoul of Australian law because videos that he uploaded to YouTube in the name of #OpAustralia and chats…
UT: Medical documents containing personal info found filling dumpster in Taylorsville
Matt McDonald reports that “piles and piles of medical records, court documents and other personal files” were found in an open dumpster in Taylorsville, Utah yesterday morning. The documents were found by a dentist, who called the police. As we’ve heard too many times, police investigated but determined that it would be difficult to pursue any…
Former Fort Benning Hospital employee sentenced for role in tax refund fraud scheme.
There’s a follow-up to a case that I’ve been covering since February, 2014, when Tracy Mitchell, a former Fort Benning Hospital employee, was indicted for stealing service members’ identity information to use for a tax refund fraud scheme. A superseding indictment was subsequently filed in May, 2014. Mitchell pled guilty in April of this year. She was…
TX: IRS employee loses flash drive with 11,000 Katy Independent School District employees’ SSN
Sofia Ojeda reports: More than 11,000 workers’ personal information, including birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers were potentially leaked during a random IRS audit. […] In an email to Katy ISD employees obtained by KPRC 2, Katy ISD Superintendent Alton Frailey explained the security breach. He said that Wednesday, the IRS conducted a random…