Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…
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Oops: Dolphin Reveals Email Addresses of Beta Testers
From the Dolphin Support blog: Yesterday we sent an e-mail to a number of consumers who are our beta testers for Dolphin Browser HD v6.0. This time is different from our monthly newsletter in that we decided to send out the emails separately by using another email service. Through an unfortunate error by one of…
(follow-up) JetBlue notification letter indicates no evidence that any employee data accessed
As reported previously on this blog, JetBlue had a security breach involving the insertion of malware on their system. Last week, the airline notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office about the incident. Their letter was somewhat imprecise about when they were informed of the problem by a federal law enforcement agency, saying only that “Earlier…
FedEx subsidiary notifies employees that the ADP/Workscape breach exposed their Social Security Numbers and direct deposit account information
FedEx Smartpost (FXG), a subsidiary of FedEx Ground Package System, was affected by the ADP/Workscape breach reported a few weeks. At the time, ADP had indicated that the intrusion affecting Workscape only affected one client as far as they knew. FXG appears to be that client. According to a letter sent by FXG’s lawyers to…
A rotten Apple employee arrested; accessed customer data
Well, here’s something I don’t usually see – a breach notification from Apple. On June 16, Apple informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a former employee had accessed customer data of customers while employed at one of Apple’s retail stores. The store’s location was not provided. The total number of customers whose data…
OH: Personal info found at trash bin in Warren
Matthew Steffy reports: Legal documents from a defunct law firm bearing personal information including Social Security numbers and dates of birth on thousands of documents surfaced in an open trash bin in downtown Warren this week. The documents include names, addresses, spousal and child information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and income earnings. The…