Dutch newsletter subscribers seem to be having a tough time recently keeping their email addresses private. According to Karin Spaink‘s blog, first the police accidentally exposed 650 newsletter recipients’ addresses in the cc-field instead of using the bcc-field of a newsletter, and then Het Dagblad van het Noorden exposed a .txt file with 32.781 e-mail…
Category: Business Sector
Possible Mass Security Breach Involving LexisNexis and Investigative Professionals (Update 3)
Ariel Bashi of CBS News reports: CBS News has learned of another data breach potentially compromising the personal information of thousands of people. Companies Lexis Nexis and Investigative Professionals have sent up to 40,000 letters to customers whose “sensitive and personally identifiable” information may have been viewed by individuals who should not have had access….
OR: Sensitive Documents Found Outside Business
KPTV reports that thousands of documents with credit card receipts exposing full credit card numbers and checks with routing and account numbers were found in a dumpster behind the Brooke Auto Insurance Company. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November.
Hacker: I broke into Twitter
Bob McMillan of IDG News Service reports: For the second time this year, a hacker has gained administrative access to a Twitter employee’s account. On Wednesday, an anonymous hacker going by the name of Hacker Croll posted 13 screenshots to a French online discussion forum, apparently captured while logged into the Twitter account of Jason…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Two Baylor University students, Nicolas Lukashevich and Nicholas Batts, have been arrested in connection with compromised email and social networking accounts. More. In MS, at least a dozen people had their identities stolen by Candance Brown, Kimberly Gentry, Latonja Casnel, and Jamaal Tyler, who used the data to open accounts at…
VA: Personal info revealed on receipt
Andy Fox of WAVY reports that customers of Miller’s Neighborhood Market Shell Station may have had their debit or credit cards exposed to other customers when an employee replaced a roll of paper in the receipt machine with a roll that already contained customer receipts showing full debit and credit card numbers. The previously recorded…