With Owensboro’s Executive Inn Rivermont about to be demolished, it has been open for the past month for people to walk through as the city tries to sell the contents. But the Messenger-Inquirer reports a group of women looking at items for sale stumbled on a box that contained employee records, including Social Security numbers…
Category: Business Sector
He’s not after your heart, just your data
Linda McGlasson, Managing Editor at BankInfoSecurity.com, wrote this piece on the LexisNexis breach first reported by Robert McMillan of IDG News Service. It is reproduced from Information-Security-Resources.com: Lexis-Nexis made public notification of a data breach that federal authorities say is tied to a New York mafia crime family. The New York-based company has sent more…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Swedish police are increasingly certain that two Romanian nationals arrested in Hungary are the masterminds behind the widespread credit card scam which recently hit residents in Malmö in southern Sweden. Hundreds of residents in Malmö have complained of credit card fraud; half of them after using an unnamed Shell gas station….
Oh look, a dumpster! Let’s throw the papers here…
In Charlotte, North Carolina, a pastor found hundreds of documents with personal information in a dumpster out behind his church. The paperwork included Social Security numbers, bank accounts and credit histories. The documents came from a home improvement company, the Home Solution Pros. Eyewitness News found the business has two office listings. Read more on…
Elance Security Breach
Just a quick post with a warning from Elance. I received an email from their customer service folks at an ungodly hour this morning, that states (if I were to paraphrase) that the site has been hacked or attacked in some way. The email covers the basics, but doesn’t include very much detail of exactly…
More breaches we didn’t read about
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office web site update reveals a number of breaches in the past few months that were never reported in the media. In addition to other news items reported earlier today on this site, here are some more newly revealed breaches: Pension Fund of the U.S.W.U. Local No. 74 reported that in…