An e-mail gaffe by a Support Center employee Ruby Tuesday exposed current employees’ information to a former employee. The spreadsheet, inadvertently attached to the July 8 e-mail, contained employees’ names, Social Security numbers, bank name, bank account type, bank account numbers and routing numbers. Ruby Tuesday immediately tried to recall the e-mail, and contacted the recipient…
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Security breach at Opscode as attackers download databases
Iain Thomson reports: Opscode, the commercial side of the open source Chef configuration management tool beloved by Google, Facebook, and IBM, has warned customers that a flaw in an unnamed third-party application has left its wiki and ticketing system pwned. “The attacker gained escalated privileges and downloaded the user database for the wiki and ticketing…
Bridgewater Associates notifies former employees that their information was accessed by unknown individual
Bridgewater Associates, LP offers employees continuing health coverage (COBRA) when they separate from the firm. That coverage is administered by Ceridian, who maintain a database with the employees’ and their dependents’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and other benefit plan information (but no medical information). On or about April 11, a Bridgewater…
Man who tries to report breach to Sears finds himself talking to someone in India?
Here we go again. It’s bad enough to have an easily avoidable breach. It’s worse when you make it difficult for people to report it to you. Today’s entry in this Hall of Shame is Sears. Nesita Kwan reports personal information of hundreds of former Sears employees, including their Social Security numbers, photos, records with…
Apple Developer site hack: doubts cast on Turkish hacker’s claims
Charles Arthur reports: A Guardian investigation has cast doubt on claims by a UK-based Turkish researcher that he hacked into Apple’s Developer portal, which has been offline for more than a week. Read more on The Guardian.
Update on Raley’s breach
More on the Raley’s supermarket chain breach reported here on June 9. Peter Strozniak reports that Redwood Credit Union has reissued 18,400 debit cards since June when the Santa Rosa, Calif., credit union was notified that a regional supermarket’s IT system had been hacked by criminals compromising about 200 member accounts. Read more on CU Times.