Ilan Gattegno reports: A pro-Syrian hacking group breached Israeli and American websites and released the personal information of over 165,000 Israelis. The biggest breach, part of an organized cyberattack on numerous websites over the past few days, was in a website that offered web hosting services. The breached site provided all information on its users,…
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VA: Personal data for 13,000 state workers inadvertently released
Annie McCallum reports: Personal data for 13,000 state employees was inadvertently sent to 11 state human resource and payroll employees. The personal information included employee names and Social Security numbers, according to a statement from Anne Waring, Virginia Department of Human Resource Management communications manager. The department was notified by Conexis, Anthem’s subcontractor for Flexible…
Failure to encrypt results in EPIC breach
Sometime in the evening of July 16 or the early morning hours of July 17, burglars managed to steal five laptop computers from the offices of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) in San Francisco. The theft was discovered on the 17th and reported to the police, but as of September 6, the laptops – one…
Ca: Wal-Mart investigates privacy breach at Regina store
Wal-Mart Canada is investigating a privacy breach at one of its Regina stores. The CBC iTeam, an investigative news unit, has learned that someone obtained the phone numbers – and photographs – of a customer who had used the photo developing machines in the east Regina location. Read more on CBC.
Lawsuit against Barnes & Noble dismissed
Main Justice reports that a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble over their hacked pin pads has been dismissed because the plaintiffs failed to even demonstrate that their information was stolen, much less that they were harmed or experienced unreimbursed costs for an imminent jury. Plaintiffs can amend the complaint to try to demonstrate harm, but…
Two Romanian Nationals Sentenced to Prison for Scheme to Steal Payment Card Data
An update on a breach previously noted on this blog: Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, 29, of Constanta, Romania, and Iulian Dolan, 28, of Craiova, Romania, were sentenced today to serve 15 years and seven years in prison, respectively, for participating in an international, multimillion-dollar scheme to remotely hack into and steal payment card data from hundreds of…