Jana Winter reports: Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S. companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance for U.S…
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Harmonic strikes discordant note with employee data protection
And here’s yet another recent case out of California where a laptop with personal information was stolen from a vehicle. This time, it’s Harmonic: We are writing to inform you of a potential information security incident involving your personal information. While Harmonic does not know whether your personal information has been or will be misused,…
CPA leaves devices with unencrypted client tax data in vehicle, and…. ugh.
Okay, I grant you that I am not in a great mood today, but color me unsympathetic to those who are “horrified” that clients’ data is stolen when they haven’t adequately secured the data. Case in point: My Dear Tax Clients, It is with a heavy heart that I bring you this news. On Friday…
DutchWear notifies online customers of payment card breach
Boersma Bros. LLC, dba DutchWear has disclosed a breach affecting those who made purchases online between November 7th and December 6th. On Saturday, December 6th, 2014, we received information that raised suspicion of an unauthorized breach of our website that was exposing the payment information for some customers of DutchWear. In order to best protect…
ID Parts notifies 12,000 customers of payment card breach
ID Parts, LLC is notifying approximately 12,000 customers that malware inserted in their server for their e-commerce site (idparts.com) may have captured payment card information between January 2014 and October 28, 2014. ID Parts was alerted to the breach by American Express, whose fraud investigation had pointed to ID Parts as the common point of…
Incident Summary #4: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email
Posted yesterday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email Incident A customer of a service provider received a routine email from the service provider advising her of when her seasonal service would be reconnected. However, she noticed that the email…