Last Wednesday, The Stanley Works notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on December 15, a corporate laptop was stolen at an unnamed airport. The laptop contained files with personal information of employees of The Stanley Works and its subsidiaries, including their names and Social Security numbers and some salary information. According to notification…
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FL: Personal Documents Found In Dumpster
An Orange City man made a troubling discovery in a Volusia County dumpster. Michael Perry was looking for boxes in a dumpster, but found hundreds of folders containing names, addresses, social security numbers and even credit card information. The information was written on work orders from Southern Satellite on 17-92 in Orange City. The business…
IE: Financial details of 1,200 Airtricity customers posted on firm’s website
John Burke reports: The personal and financial details of almost 1,200 customers of green energy firm Airtricity were posted on the company’s website for six weeks, The Sunday Business Post has learned. The Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes, has launched an investigation into the incident, which occurred in late November but was only accidentally spotted…
TX: Identity thieves hit 3 S.A. hotels
Guillermo Contreras reports: The personal information of 17,000 people who stayed at San Antonio hotels has been compromised after someone stole stacks of credit card receipts and redistributed them. The still mushrooming identity-theft case is thought to be San Antonio’s largest. “Up to this point, we have recovered 1,500 (receipts), but we’re estimating 17,000 were…
IN: HoneyBaked Ham customer data stolen
Erika D. Smith reports: Patrons of the HoneyBaked Ham store at 65th Street and Keystone Avenue might be at risk for identity theft if they shopped there in late December. The company said Friday that a computer server stocked with credit-card information was stolen from the 2431 E. 65th St. store on Dec. 24. The…
SRA International network infected; company notifies all employees and customers that personal info may have been compromised
SRA International notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on January 20 that it had recently detected a virus on its network that may have allowed compromise of data. As of the date of the report, SRA’s security experts were reportedly still in the process of trying to eradicate the virus. Because the security experts could…