WREX follows up on a breach they exposed in January 2010: An insurance company faces a fine and other stipulations for improperly throwing away people’s private insurance documents in Loves Park.MetLife has been ordered to provide credit fraud protection for everyone affected by the mistake and has to pay a $75,000 fine to the State…
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Kr: Customers’ Information of Five-Star Hotel Exposed on Google
As the issue of privacy continues to become an ever increasing cause of concern in this technological world the personal information of guests staying at a group of luxury hotels in Korea has been found on Google. According to media reports Friday, customers’ information at the Ambassador Hotel Group, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses,…
FL: Seacoast Bank customers’ cards replaced after Fort Pierce ‘skimming’ incident
This seems like a second skimming incident involving a RaceTrac gas station in Florida, as the street address is different than that reported in a previous skimming incident. Paul Mice reports: A few thousand Seacoast National Bank customers have received new credit or debit cards in recent weeks because a handful of them were victims…
Cord Blood Registry notifies 300,000 of stolen backup tapes (updated)
I first became aware of the following breach from DataLossDB.org. It was reported to them by one of those affected who also reported it on ScamSafe: ScamSafe appears to be the first to report a serious data breach at Cord Blood Registry (www.cordblood.com). No mention has been found of this breach in the news or…
MO: Real Estate Records Found In Dumpster
Betsy Bruce reports: Private real estate records turned up in a condominium dumpster in Hazelwood Thursday. Three banker boxes full of files from the Prudential Patterson Realtors firm were tossed into a trash bin. A resident who retrieved some of the files passed them along to FOX Two News. Personal addresses, phone numbers and a…
Cambridge Who’s Who attempt to block former employee from discussing alleged data loss fails in court
Occasionally, we find out about a data breach via court filings instead of notifications or media coverage. This is one of those times, it seems. As far as I can determine, the incident discussed in the court case was not reported to the NYS Consumer Protection Board by either Cambridge Who’s Who or Proactive Technology…