Stephen Foley comments in The Independent on the recent CitiGroup breach and tries to prevent kneejerk reactions. He writes, in part: […] There have been 288 publicly disclosed breaches of financial services companies’ computer systems, according to the Identity Theft Resource Centre, and 83 million customer records compromised. That would suggest that, even if you…
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Conduct unbecoming: Signing up for a porn site with a .mil addy? Seriously, folks?
The group of hackers at LulzSecurity.com had more fun today, it seems. I’m not reproducing their data here, but they posted unredacted emails and passwords of individuals who signed up for a porn site.. A few of them were from .gov or .mil domains and there were 18 from .edu domains: Hi! We like porn…
Lafrance Hospitality Corporation breached; over 100 fraud victims
Westport police have received information that about 100 people are victims of thieves who used identification information from Lafrance Hospitality Corporation to create fraudulent copies of patrons’ credit and debit cards. It is believed that Lafrance Hospitality’s credit and debit system was breached electronically beginning in February, police said. Lafrance Hospitality includes many businesses, including…
TX: Data breach may affect 4,900 state workers
Is there any state employee left in Texas who hasn’t had their data breached this year? Chuck Lindell reports: The Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services has begun notifying 4,900 current and former employees that a security breach may have exposed their personal information.Personal information for employees of other agencies — the former Texas Rehabilitation…
Another grain of sand in the data breach dunes
It seems that reports of stolen or lost patient records are everywhere these days. Here’s a small item from the public records page of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette in Pennsylvania on June 9: LANCASTER — Someone stole items from a 1998 Saturn SCI belong to a home health aide parked in the 1200 block of…
(In)security update: Arrests in Sony hacking, plus Acer breach
Levi Sumagaysay writes: Spain has arrested three people in connection with hacking Sony’s PlayStation Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spanish police say the three are members of hacker group Anonymous, which has recently claimed responsibility for various attacks on companies such as MasterCard and Visa, as well as Sony. (Although Anonymous has said it was…