A reader alerted me to some recent reports out of Ohio about a rash – or rashes? – of card fraud. Teresa Dixon Murray reported on the situation at the beginning of the month: Art Bowker received a call last weekend from his credit union about a suspicious charge on his debit card. Did he…
Category: Breach Incidents
Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants reveals that 300,000 workers’ compensation applicants’ names and Social Security Numbers were exposed on internet
Remember how Heartland Payment Systems took a lot of heat for announcing their breach at a time that coincided with President Obama’s inauguration? Since then, a lot of entities have been bashed a bit over the timing of their breach disclosures. As someone who tracks breaches, it became almost a given that I would find…
Epic Games Gets Hacked
It seems like everyone these days are getting their sites hacked and their data compromised. Just yesterday we did a post about Codemasters getting hit in a fresh attack by hackers and yesterday afternoon I received this email from Epic Games: Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up…
Virus on Penn State Altoona computer may have put 12,000 alumni, faculty, and staff Social Security Numbers in hacker’s hands
Russ O’Reilly reports: Thousands of faculty, staff and former students at Penn State Altoona are examining their bank accounts and credit reports this week after receiving a letter that their personal information could be at risk after a security breach in the university’s database. A computer virus created with malicious intent to steal information breached…
Conduct unbecoming: Signing up for a porn site with a .mil addy? Seriously, folks?
The group of hackers at LulzSecurity.com had more fun today, it seems. I’m not reproducing their data here, but they posted unredacted emails and passwords of individuals who signed up for a porn site.. A few of them were from .gov or .mil domains and there were 18 from .edu domains: Hi! We like porn…
Lafrance Hospitality Corporation breached; over 100 fraud victims
Westport police have received information that about 100 people are victims of thieves who used identification information from Lafrance Hospitality Corporation to create fraudulent copies of patrons’ credit and debit cards. It is believed that Lafrance Hospitality’s credit and debit system was breached electronically beginning in February, police said. Lafrance Hospitality includes many businesses, including…