FEI Company has notified employees that a laptop stolen on August 29 contained their personal information. In a letter from their counsel to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the firm indicates that the laptop held employees’ names, Social Security numbers, taxpayer I.D. information, salary information, date of birth, home address, and basic employment information….
Category: Business Sector
Korn/Ferry’s frustratingly vague breach disclosure (update2)
File this under “How NOT to issue a press release.” Korn/Ferry reportedly issued some statement that they were the victim of a criminal attack. They note that the databases typically do not hold credit cards, Social Security numbers or health information, but they fail to indicate what types of personally identifiable information may have been…
Ca: Bar and lounge workers warned of potential privacy breach (update1)
Jana G. Pruden reports: Hundreds of employees of the Oil City Hospitality Group are being warned that personal information such as social insurance numbers and birth dates has been “accessed and possibly compromised” after a break-in at the company’s head office this summer. The group owns a number of popular bars and lounges in Edmonton,…
How Zappos’ User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked
Eric Goldman writes: In January, Zappos (part of $AMZN) announced a massive data security breach affecting 24 million consumers. As typically happens in these situations, plaintiffs’ class action lawyers swarmed over Zappos for the breach, filing dozens of lawsuits. Zappos tried to send the lawsuits to arbitration based on an arbitration clause in its user agreement. Recently,…
Millions of PlaySpan user IDs and passwords leaked online
Craig Chapple reports: World of Tanks, Guild Wars and Eve Online players hit by huge security breach Hackers have breached and leaked the personal information of millions of PlaySpan Marketplace users online. Private details compromised included user IDs, email addresses and encrypted passwords. In a statement to Develop, a PlaySpan spokesperson insisted however that there…
KS: Salina businesses see high number of computer thefts
Last month I tweeted about a rash of burglaries where thieves were stealing computers from Salina, Kansas businesses. Samantha Anderson reports that there have been more burglaries since then: Two businesses had computer or computer parts stolen over the weekend. One of those businesses was American Family Insurance. […] Other businesses hit in the last…