Approximately one year after the theft of 57 hard drives containing member data from a leased facility in Chattanooga, BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee provided an update on the breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. BCBS had assigned the affected individuals to one of three “tiers.” Tier 1 included those whose Social Security…
Category: Breach Incidents
(update) Capitol Hill credit card fraud victim total nears 100, investigators suspect sniffers
jseattle provides the latest update on a string of fraud reports As we were first to report that a Secret Service electronic crimes task force has made a major break in its investigation of a wave of credit card fraud emanating from Capitol Hill, reports of fraudulent charges continue to pile up. More than 40…
NJ: Private Seton Hall University student data exposed in e-mail
Personal information of 1,500 seniors – contained in an e-mail attachment – was accidentally sent to 400 students on Tuesday. The e-mail attachment, which was an Excel spreadsheet, listed the students’ names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, student identification numbers, majors, credit hours and grade point averages, according to a “Security Incident” e-mail sent Tuesday evening…
IN: Personal Info Found Dumped Outside School
The state is investigating after a box full of personal information was found dumped in a trash bin near a downtown school. …. A recent search turned up a box of payroll stubs from the Thai Cafe in Broad Ripple. […] The stubs, from the year 2000, had been in the possession of Richard Fischer,…
(Update) Ca: Teen hacker charged
Kate Dubinski reports: A 15-year-old hacker accused of breaking into the Thames Valley District school board’s website and exposing the passwords of 27,000 high school students has been criminally charged.The boy was arrested and charged with four criminal code offences: Intercepting a computer function – Fraudulently obtaining computing services. Using a computer with intent to…
(update) Telstra: privacy breach mail-out was our fault, not printer’s
Daniel Fitzgerald reports: Telstra has said an internal error – not the printer, SEMA – was behind the privacy breach bungle that last week saw around 220,000 letters delivered to wrong addresses. It is understood that SEMA, which handled the printing and mailing of the letter discussing upcoming fixed line price changes, was supplied with…