An unencrypted flash drive with First Transit applicants’ personal information was recently lost on a bus in Cincinnati. According to a notification sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 4, the stick was lost on January 21. It contained applicants’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, information about applicants’ criminal…
Category: Business Sector
eHarmony Hacked
Brian Krebs writes: Online dating giant eHarmony has begun urging many users to change their passwords, after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity.com to a potential security breach of customer information. The individual responsible for all the ruckus is an Argentinian hacker who recently claimed responsibility for a similar breach at competing e-dating site PlentyOfFish.com. […] Joseph…
Ie: Data breach at RecruitIreland.com
Aoife Carr reports that Gardai are investigating a security breach involving the recruitment website RecruitIreland.com: It is thought that names and e-mail addresses of those registered with the site were accessed for spamming purposes. The site was shut down yesterday afternoon when the breach was noticed….. CVs, usernames and passwords are not thought to have…
Marriott Vacation Club Intl reports data loss involving paper records
On December 27, Marriott Ownership Resorts (d/b/a Marriott Vacation Club International) learned that _____ timeshare maintenance fee payment slips that had been processed by _____________ Bank were in a box that had been damaged in transit to Marriott’s corporate offices by major overnight shipping service, ________ and that some of the payment slips had been…
Anonymous Hacks into Security Firm’s Network and Steals Confidential Data
Another hactivist incident. Lucian Constantin reports: Members of the Anonymous collective have broken into the network of a security firm and exposed its internal communications, after it claimed to know the identity of the group’s founders. Last week, Aaron Barr, the head of an information security firm called HBGary Federal, told the Financial Times that…
AU: CityCycle in privacy breach
Cameron Atfield reports: Brisbane’s CityCycle bike hire scheme has been embroiled in a massive privacy breach, with the email addresses of all its subscribers distributed in an email this afternoon. The addresses of 1306 CityCycle users were all included in the “to” field of an email sent to subscribers at 5.12pm today. The email was…