Add AmeriPride and Actifio to the ever-growing list of companies whose employees’ W-2 info was snagged by criminals via phishing. If your company didn’t urgently re-train employees about this growing problem with phishing and business email compromises, do it now. Update 1: Add Evening Post Industries to the list of those whose employees fell for business email…
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Nintendo Health Plan breach impacts 6,248 (Updated)
It’s all fun and games until you have to report a breach involving your health plan to HHS. Nintendo of America, Inc. notified HHS on February 26 of an incident impacting 6,248. The incident was coded as “Hacking/IT Incident” involving their Network Server, but still covers a lot of possibilities. [CORRECTION: It was not their…
Pharm-Olam notifies employees of W-2 information breach
It’s not clear from their notification how many employees were impacted and how the security incident occurred, but Pharm-Olam International started notifying employees by mail of a security incident that compromised their names, Social Security and income information: At Pharm-Olam International (the “Company”) we value you and respect the privacy of your information, which is…
UK: Morrisons denies liability as data leak case nears court for more than 100 Peterborough employees
The Peterborough Telegraph reports: Lawyers acting on behalf of several thousand Morrisons’ employees, including more than 100 from Peterborough, say they will “vigorously contest” the retailer’s assertion that it wasn’t to blame for a data leak which led to their personal details being posted on the internet. Bank, salary and National Insurance details of almost…
Wal-Mart says some pharmacy client data was visible to others online (updated)
Nathan Layne reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Wednesday that prescription history and other basic information on a few thousand online U.S. pharmacy customers may have been visible to other users during a four-day stretch last month due to a coding mistake. “We had a software coding error for a 72-hour period from February 15…
Cox investigates possible data breach
When your employees’ data are up for sale on the dark web, that’s a pretty good indicator you’ve had a breach – if the data are valid. Joseph Cox reports: Apparent names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information relating to some 40,000 Cox Communications employees is currently advertised on a marketplace specialising in stolen…