Bill Ray reports: Orange accidentally shared the email addresses of more than 300 customers yesterday during a bid to find out what they think of the company. The email, passed on to us by several readers, suggests the recipient might like to reply with their thoughts about how customers keep in touch with the operator,…
Category: Business Sector
Nl: Notary puts clients passports online
Karin Spaink provides an English summary of a recent breach reported in Dutch media: Veilingnotaris.nl tries to list all online real estate auctions. Apparently their site is badly protected: Google has indexed quite some client information, including passport copies, notary deeds, registry information etcetera. The published information concerned both recent and old auctions. Internet Notaries,…
Shell employee contact data breach affects over 100,000
The following was posted by John Donavan and attributed to Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Richard Wiseman: Colleagues, I am writing to inform you of an incident involving misuse of company data. It has become clear recently that the Global Address List, containing contact information of everyone in Shell and some…
Stolen Abbott Medical Optic backup tapes put employees and consumers at risk
Employees and customers of Abbott Medical Optics in Santa Ana, California are being notified that their personal information was on backup tapes that were stolen. On December 29, locked metal boxes containing the backup tapes were stolen from AMO’s Milipitas facility in California. The company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of the theft…
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Infiltrating VOIP Networks And Reselling Services for Profit
The first individual ever charged with hacking into the networks of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) providers and reselling hacked VOIP services for a profit pleaded guilty yesterday, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, announced. Edwin Pena, 27, a Venezuelan citizen, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to one count of conspiracy to…
MN: Identities of 27,000 Ceridian users at risk
The Associated Press reports: A hacker attack on a Bloomington payroll processing company has put 27,000 people at financial risk. Ceridian, in a letter to affected customers, says the hacker attacked its Internet payroll system Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, potentially revealing Social Security numbers, birth dates and bank accounts of employees working at 1,900…