Eli George reports: Top secret personal information was found scattered to the wind. That’s right; it happened again. Paperwork containing private financial information was found in the street. It’s hard enough protecting personal information, but when it’s out on the street, for anyone to see, it’s impossible. Well, let’s just say two young women were…
Category: Breach Incidents
JP: Hackers steal customer data by accessing supermarket database
Hackers stole customer data from eight online supermarkets in Japan, including Uny Co. and Neo Beat Co., in July using a hacking technique called SQL injection to access their databases, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. A source close to Neo Beat, which also operates the websites of these online supermarkets, said it believes…
Feds still questioning AT&T iPad site hackers
Elinor Mills reports: Several members of a hacker group responsible for exposing a hole on an AT&T Web site for iPad customers have been questioned by a federal grand jury about the incident, the group confirmed to CNET on Friday. “No warrants or indictments yet. Two Goatse analysts, ‘Sloth’ and ‘Rucas,’ went before a grand…
Ca: Province responding to privacy breach
The provincial government is responding to another privacy breach. The personal information of 78 people was included in error in written correspondence mailed to another person. The breach involved applicants to the province’s Heating Oil Storage Tank Replacement Assistance Program. The information collected from applicants for this program includes their name, spouse’s name, Social Insurance…
OK: Customers’ credit information stolen at local restaurant
Joleen Chaney reports: A popular restaurant in the western Oklahoma is the latest target of a fraudulent high-tech scheme used to steal the credit card numbers customers. […] Schumacher says his customers’ card information has never been stored on their computers but was stolen as it passed through the system. “It grabs the number as…
Loma Linda offers help after desktops stolen in June
Darrell R. Santschi reports: Loma Linda University’s dental school has hired a credit monitoring and repair firm to help potential identity theft victims. Kroll Inc. will offer assistance to any of the 10,100 patients whose personal information was contained in three desktop computers stolen from the school the weekend of June 12, university spokesman Dustin…