Mark Fagan reports: The owner of the former Round Corner Pharmacy was scrambling Thursday night to recover hundreds of detailed customer records that had been thrown away during the building’s renovations. Tom Wilcox was notified Thursday evening that a desk drawer filled with prescription records from 2007 had been overturned in a roll-off trash container…
Category: Breach Incidents
Easybakeware.com customers notified of security concern
When easybakeware.com customers started contacting the company to report unauthorized charges on their credit cards or debit cards from other merchants during the month of September, the Connecticut-based company instructed its Microsoft Gold Level e-commerce service provider/data center to investigate. They also hired an independent security consultant, but neither the consultant nor service provider reportedly…
Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency
Caroline Stocks reports: Thousands of farmers’ bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers. The RPA, which administers the single payment system of EU subsidy to English farmers, for the Department of Environment Food and…
(Follow-up) Credit cards re-issued in Finland after data breach in Spain
A credit card security breach has been uncovered in Spain that may involve up to tens of thousands of Finnish bank and credit cards. So far it is not known exactly how many Visa or Master Card accounts have been compromised because of the information breach. Where in Spain the hacking took place is also…
Former state tax department employee arrested
The Associated Press reports: Louisiana State Police say a former employee of the state Department of Revenue faces nine felony charges, including theft and unauthorized use of credit card information. Detectives say 39-year-old Joy Lynn Aikens, of Prairieville, was arrested Tuesday on one count of malfeasance in office, two counts of identity theft and six…
Client blows whistle on data theft in BPO
Another incident involving an Indian call center and theft of personal information. Roxy Gagdekar reports: A BPO data theft came to light after a client blew the whistle on an employee of FGMB-PM Services Pvt Ltd who had sold the data to a former employee and current rival of the company. FGMB’s clients blew the…