Ingrid Lunden writes: It’s not clear if this is a one-off glitch, a signal of a bigger issue — or a way of pumping up/sabotaging Klout scores for those who care. But it’s not great news any way you spin it, if it’s true: a Klout user has gotten in touch to say that when…
Author: Dissent
TalkTalk subsidiary’s customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie (updated with response from TalkTalk)
Bill Ray reports: Updated Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn’t care. The details include customer and contract prices, copies of sales orders and spreadsheets showing how things are going at the subsidiary which TalkTalk…
Montreal homicide detective guilty of passing data from CRPQ database to criminals
Sue Montgomery reports on another insider breach: A Montreal homicide detective was found guilty Friday of using the police database to glean personal information and pass it on to criminals. Mario Lambert, 44, was arrested in September 2009 after the Montreal police internal affairs department discovered someone had used the computer between December 2008 and…
Was it or wasn’t it hacked: conflicting reports on a possible bank hack
WNYF reports: The accounts of hundreds of Community Bank customers may have been compromised in an apparent identity theft attempt involving debit cards. State police investigators tell 7 News that a data base used by the bank was apparently hacked into earlier this month with personal account information of numerous north country customer accounts obtained….
Computer security breach at Serco affects 123,000 Thrift Savings Plan participants
Hazel Bradford reports: A cyber attack on a computer of a contractor for the $313 billion Thrift Savings Plan, Washington, could have compromised account information for about 123,000 plan participants, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which oversees the plan, announced Friday. […] The attack was made on a computer at Serco Inc., a contractor…
GA: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital notifying home health patients their data may have been stolen for tax fraud
Fox31 in Georgia reports: In a press release issued by Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, they are alerting the public that patient information could be compromised. The release states that on April 9th, Phoebe Putney learned from law enforcement that a now former employee improperly accessed patient information with the intent to process fraudulent tax returns….