Telecompaper had a small item about a breach involving Deutsche Telekom. Astrid Maier of Manager Magazin had the story upon which it was based. Based solely on my understanding of a Google translation of the latter, it appears that nearly 25 employees who shouldn’t have had access to identifiable information were able to access the…
Category: Business Sector
Osprey Packs notifying customers after breach brought to its attention by a customer
Osprey Packs will begin mailing letters to Osprey Pro customers whose personal information was compromised in a recent attack of its online Pro Deals site. The breach, which occurred on July 9, exposed customers’ names, billing, shipping, and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers with expiration dates. Osprey Packs learned of the breach…
Midwest Supplies to send breach notification letters to online customers following hack (Update 2)
It seems that homebrewing supplier Midwest Supplies, LLC of Minnesota had a security breach on June 13 that they discovered on July 19. Letters should be going out within a few days to those affected. In a letter dated August 31 that has been submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, David Kidd, President of…
Other recent breaches that flew under the media radar
State web sites that post breach reports often reveal breaches we didn’t learn about via media coverage. Here are five that I learned about in the past few days: Republic Services reported that a laptop stolen from an employee’s home contained current and former employees’ names and Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in Maricopa…
Symantec Dodges Norton Software User’s Data Breach Suit
Juan Carlos Rodriguez of Law360 reports that the plaintiff in Haskins v. Symantec didn’t fare well: A California federal judge on Friday tossed a proposed class action accusing Symantec Corp. of hiding a data breach in which hackers stole source code for its Norton anti-virus software, finding the complaint did not properly name all the products…
Critical Pinterest Exploit threatened the privacy of millions of users
paganinip posts: Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user’s information of over 70 Million accounts. The security researcher Dan Melamed has found a Critical Pinterest Exploit that compromised the privacy of over 70 Million Users, the flaw allows hackers to view the email address of any user on Pinterest. Dan has found the way…