Eric Veronikis reports that about 200 employees of Carlisle Borough are being notified of the breach at payroll processor Paytime, Inc.: Carlisle learned this week that its payroll information was compromised as the company it formerly used to process pay slips recently discovered a data breach that put the personal information of its customers’ employees at…
Category: Business Sector
Paytime sends notification letters
The Paytime, Inc. breach, noted previously, has resulted in Paytime notifying the California Attorney General’s Office. Since California only requires notification if over 500 residents are affected, it may indicate that the breach was fairly large. According to their forensic investigation, hackers accessed personal information – including name, address, phone numbers, Social Security number and date…
eBay hit with massive security breach, asks all users to change passwords (updated)
Well, we knew this was coming after a marker for an alert was noticed on PayPal this morning, but now it’s definite: Ebay is asking users to change passwords. Russell Brandom reports: Later today, eBay will begin asking all of its 112 million customers to change their passwords, in the wake of a newly discovered database…
Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search/Experian breach tied to more cases of ID theft
Trot on over to KrebsOnSecurity.com, where Brian’s connecting the dots between a number of criminal prosecutions and Ngo, the Vietnamese national who posed as a Singapore investigator to get a Court Ventures account that gave him access to reports in U.S. Info Search’s database. Experian subsequently acquired Court Ventures, and Ngo’s account was allowed to continue…
Lowe’s notifying employees whose personal information was exposed on Internet by vendor error (updated)
Lowe’s is notifying some current and former vehicle drivers as well as employees who access and administer a driver file system that their personal information was exposed on the Internet for nine months. In their notification letter dated today, Scott Purvis, Vice President of Human Resources for Lowe’s writes: Lowe’s contracts with a third-party vendor to provide a…
Social Science Site Using Azure Loses Data
Charles Babcock reports: Dedoose, a social science data company, has lost some of its customers’ data while operating on the Microsoft Azure cloud. “This is a horrible moment for our company. We have never lost data or had a breach,” said Dedoose president Eli Lieber in an interview. At best, it will be able to…