Amanda Moore reports: A Grimsby business owner is scrambling after her laptop, cash and cheques were stolen from her studio. Last week, Kimberley Whittemore, owner of Balanced Being Fitness Inc., returned to the studio from a coffee break downstairs at Station One to find the computer missing. The laptop, an older Toshiba model, contained hundreds…
Category: Business Sector
ACTE members’ data stolen by hackers
Rob Gill reports: Hackers have stolen data of all members of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. ACTE’s executive director Greeley Koch said that there had been a “malicious theft” yesterday (August 11) of members’ names and email address, although no other data such as credit card details or addresses was acquired by the hackers….
Reminder to terminate login credentials of terminated employees
Today’s reminder is from a breach I came across in reviewing records obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request I filed. American Medical Response is a billing/collections agency. In the course of business, they routinely access a database maintained by Acxiom Insight. Apparently, login credentials of an inactive employee were never properly…
Court to Notify Customers Who Shopped at Schnucks with a Credit or Debit Card That They May Be Eligible for Payments from a Class Action Settlement
A notification program is underway, as approved by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, to alert customers of Schnuck Markets, Inc. (“Schnucks”) that a Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit about a security breach that occurred between December 9, 2012 and March 30, 2013. Read more on Kansas City Business Journal.
UK: Estate agent data breach leaves customers open to ID theft
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken action after a London estate agent continued to leave papers containing personal information on the street despite a previous warning. On 11 December 2013, the ICO was informed that an outlet owned by Thamesview Estate Agents was leaving papers containing personal information in…
OmegaNet reports breach affecting business clients
Last month, I noted that Dennis East International (DEI) was notifying customers after OmegaNet notified them of a breach. In the interim, OmegaNet, through its attorneys, has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that 10 businesses in New Hampshire were affected by a malware incident that was able to capture information before it was encrypted….