Last week, John Cuoco reported that approximately 6,000 Milwaukee Public School District employees found their Social Security numbers exposed in plain view on mailings due to an error by a third party vendor providing prescription drug coverage for MPS Medicare D recipients. Yesterday, he updated his reporting to identify the vendor: The Milwaukee Public School District…
Category: Business Sector
Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)
Clinical Reference Laboratory provides lab tests for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance policy applicants. On September 17, they learned that a billing sent to MassMutual on September 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, type of lab test performed, and/or partial or full Social Security numbers had been damaged in transit with USPS and some pages…
Visa’s fines are punitive, not compensatory – Genesco
More on Genesco’s lawsuit over Visa’s fines following a data breach: Jeffrey Benzing reports that Genesco is arguing that Visa’s own internal documents show that they view breach fines as penalties and not compensatory. Genesco argues that the fines are therefore unenforceable under California law. Read more about their legal argument on Main Justice. Previous…
Thirteen men involved in Operation Payback indicted
Gil Aegerter reports: Thirteen alleged members of the computer hacking group Anonymous were indicted Thursday on conspiracy charges accusing them of coordinated cyberattacks on anti-piracy groups, government agencies, credit card companies and others, dubbed Operation Payback. The federal grand jury indictment, filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., alleges that the 13 used distributed denial…
Adobe warns 2.9 million customers of data breach after cyber-attack (Update5)
[Note: if you came to this site because you’re having trouble enrolling in Experian’s service with the Adobe activation code, jump to Update 5, below. Please do not simply post that the activation code didn’t work – tell us whether you tried Firefox if you were having problems with another browser.]. Adam Gabbatt reports that…
PayJunction notifies sales agents of breach
PayJunction is notifying sales agents that their names, Social Security numbers, and bank account numbers may have been compromised by unauthorized access to a backup of an internal business system. In a letter sent to those affected, Randy Modos, President of PayJunction, writes that they learned in late September of the July breach. The letter…