Ohio-based Tremco, Inc. is notifying employees whose personal information – including Social Security numbers – was on a laptop left on an airplane June 17th by a Human Resources employee. The employee reported the loss immediately, but so far, the laptop has not been recovered. Several weeks after the loss, the employee realized that there…
Category: Business Sector
Trade groups send letter with data security priorities to Senate
Seen on NACS: Last Friday, NACS and a group including eight other trade associations sent a letter to every U.S. Senator articulating the priorities of the associations in the context of data breach or data security legislation. The Senate has indicated that it might consider cybersecurity information-sharing legislation on the floor this coming week and if so,…
Dubizzle’s UAE website suffers security breach
Neil Halligan reports: Classified listing website dubizzle.com has said its UAE website suffered a security breach where a small number of registered users have been affected. dubizzle’s General Manager, Barry Judge said the company sent an email to users on Saturday following the discovery of the breach, warning people to change passwords as a precaution….
APT28 hack will cost French broadcaster TV5Monde €15 million
So first they thought it was CyberCaliphate who was responsible for the TV5Monde hack that was disclosed in April. Then they said it was Russia’s APT28 group. Regardless of who it was, the hack was costly, as I noted here last week. Neil Ford reports: Yves Bigot, the network’s director general, was quoted by France…
Network Solutions customer sites defaced
Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…
Orange County Employees Association victim of hack
The Orange County Employees Association in Santa Ana, California is notifying an undisclosed number of people that their personal information, and that of their dependents, may have been accessed by hackers. In a notification to the state, OCEA writes that the attack, which appears to have occurred as early as June 5, was detected on July…