Another insider breach: GCI is sending letters to about 400 customers and urging them to check their accounts for any unusual activity. The letters follow the discovery that a former customer telephone service representative may have misused customer-supplied credit card or bank account payment information. Read more on Anchorage Daily News Correction: In an earlier…
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Utah: Did 2005 bill contribute to the Medicaid computer breach?
Chris Vanocur that a 2005 bill that centralized computer systems in Utah may have contributed to the March hack that affected 800,000. The centralization reportedly saved the state money, but Chris asks at what cost? The centralization reportedly led to lay-offs and, eventually, other key state computer personnel left as well. ABC 4 News is…
UK: Contract catering firm signs undertaking to improve data protection
Without fanfare, the ICO has published an undertaking signed by Holroyd Howe Independent Ltd in Reading. The gist of the breach is that in response to a request for a copy of an ex-employee’s payslip (requested by the ex-employee), the data processor mailed a document disclosing the relevant month’s payslips for all of the contract catering firm’s…
CA: Hundreds of patient files stolen from local lab
More than 700 patient files were stolen from a local laboratory. The crime was discovered Monday, after someone broke into the office of Physicians Automated Laboratory on 17th Street in downtown Bakersfield over the weekend. According to PAL, 745 patients had their information stolen: including names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and lab work. Read…
AU: Hackers hit Telstra site (updated)
Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has been hit by a “hacking attack” affecting 35,000 customers, just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference the telco was reviewing how it secured and stored customer information. The hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond’s GameArena and Games Shop websites, the telco…
MilitarySingles.com breach back in the news
It looks like the MilitarySingles.com breach is back in the news. Yes, that would be the hack that they denied happened. The newest round of reports flows from a report by Imperva, dissecting the breach. John E. Dunn of Techworld, ITProPortal, and Anne Saita of ThreatPost cover the report and the risks consumer-created content pose for the…