From breach reports to Vermont, here are three more breaches I didn’t know about previously: Cathedral Square notified residents that their only payment processing system had been compromised, resulting in access to the residents’ names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers if they paid their rent electronically. Residents do not seem to have been offered…
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Maryland reports reveal yet more breaches
Thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, I just received copies of the 22 breach reports they received in January of this year. They’ll be sending me the rest of the reports received this year in the very near future. Looking through what they sent me, I see that we knew about the majority of…
Maine breach reports obtained by DataBreaches.net
To follow up on my curiosity about what kind of year 2010 is turning out to be, I decided to use a primary source. Thanks to the cooperation of officials in Maine who responded promptly to my requests under Freedom of Information, I was able to obtain data on all breaches reported to them for…
Hackers find a new target in payroll processing
Oh ho…. this explains the confusion created by a recent breach report by Regeneron to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. I had been wondering why Regeneron was claiming that they had first found out about a breach involving Ceridian in June when Ceridian had claimed back in February that everyone was notified. I had…
Recruiter in Cheesecake Factory Card-Skimming Case Pleads Guilty
Note: this is a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site. Nicole Lakesha Ward, 28, of Washington D.C., pled guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud relating to a card-skimming scheme that targeted customers of The Cheesecake Factory in Washington, D.C. Ward faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison when…
A costly layover: laptop with over 32,000 SSN lost
Through its lawyers, Indianapolis-based First Advantage Tax Consulting Services (TCS) has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on June 10, a laptop containing sensitive personal information was lost during an airport layover. The documents on the laptop included information provided by employers who were receiving TCS’s professional services in determining their eligibility for…