As a small update to the GAA breach reported yesterday, News Letter reports that an arrest has been made: Personal details of more than 500 GAA members have been stolen. One man was arrested followed the security breach at Belfast company Servasport, which held the database. The information taken includes postal and email addresses, phone…
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Hackers steal Walgreens e-mail list, attack consumers
Bob Sullivan reports: Pharmacy giant Walgreens had to swallow some bitter medicine on Friday when it told customers that a computer criminal had stolen its e-mail marketing list. The criminal used the list to send out realistic-looking spam that asked recipients to enter their personal information into a Web page controlled by hackers. “We are…
SWIRCA laptop computer stolen
The Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging, Inc. (SWIRCA) is in the process of notifying 757 clients of a breach of their protected personal information due to the theft of a case manager’s laptop computer from SWIRCA’s offices. The theft occurred sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 when the case manager last used the…
SWIRCA laptop computer stolen
The Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging, Inc. (SWIRCA) is in the process of notifying 757 clients of a breach of their protected personal information due to the theft of a case manager’s laptop computer from SWIRCA’s offices. The theft occurred sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 when the case manager last used the…
Five newly revealed breaches on HHS's web site
With its most recent update, the HHS breach tool site added nine breach reports. We knew about some of them already (the Oklahoma City VA incident, the Triple-Salud breach in Puerto Rico that had been reported by the Puerto Rico Dept. of Health, and the University of Tennessee Medical Center incident), but some of them…
Ie: Details of 500,000 GAA members compromised
The GAA [Gaelic Athletic Association – Dissent] has confirmed that the personal details of over 500,000 members have been compromised following a data breach. Servasport, which maintains the GAA database, revealed that there had been ‘unauthorised access’ to its database. The database contains the names and addresses of 501,786 members. Details include 288,511 dates of birth, 107,212…