The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi recently notified some employees that their names and Social Security numbers had been erroneously emailed by their vendor AON Hewitt to another client of AON Hewitt. The email error occurred on August 2 and employees were notified on September 3. Although the risk analysis indicated a very low risk of misuse,…
Category: Business Sector
Promotional travel mug seller notifies customers of breach
BEL USA, LLC operates a number of web sites that sell promotional items such as travel mugs, but it is their customers who seemingly have been mugged. Consumers who made credit card transactions on BEL USA’s sites or who placed phone orders between March 1 and July 15 are receiving notification letters that their data…
Fraudulent signatures discovered on Lifeline phone applications – Scripps News investigation
Scripps News Service is not backing off on their reporting of breaches involving TerraCom and YourTel America, even though TerraCom did not respond well to their previous coverage. In a press release issued today, Scripps reports that it has uncovered people across the country whose signatures appeared on applications with TerraCom and YourTel for phones…
FurRag.com notifies users of hack
Alex Vance has posted a forum noticeon FurRag.com, advising users to change their passwords: I’ve been made aware of a list of usernames, e-mail addresses and MD5 hashes that has been leaked and determined that it was stolen from FurRag on 2 September. For the security of our users I’m putting the site in Maintenance Mode…
Travel Security Firm International SOS Victimized By Cyber-Attack
Amon Cohen reports: International SOS, which claims to be “the world’s largest medical and security services company,” suffered a cyber-attack on its traveler-tracking system. A source told BTN the incident took place Aug. 28. “We detected an unauthorized access in the U.S. to one of our systems, which hosts traveler information related to one of our information…
I never promised you a rose garden
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the sunshine There’s gotta be a little rain sometime — From the song The song was running through my head as I read Law360’s report that LinkedIn’s latest attempt to get the lawsuit against it dismissed claims it never made premium subscribers any…