Brian Krebs reports: Payroll services provider PayChoice took its Web-based service offline for the second time in a month on Wednesday in response to yet another data breach caused by hackers. Moorestown, N.J. based PayChoice, provides direct payroll processing services and licenses its online employee payroll management product to at least 240 other payroll processing…
Category: Breach Incidents
London cyber criminals face jail over Natwest fraud
Asavin Wattanajantra reports: London-based cyber criminals face jail after siphoning off £600,000 from bank customers with a trojan virus. According to a report in the West Sussex County Times, the criminals used a trojan to infected computers, which waited until a user logged onto an account and then slithered its way into online cash transfer…
WI: Fabric store customers warned of debit card fraud
Liz Welter reports: Officials are alerting residents that debit/credit cards used at two central Wisconsin fabric stores during late August and early September might have been compromised. During the weekend, numerous complaints came into law enforcement agencies in Wood and Portage counties reporting fraudulent activity on debit cards that appear to be automated teller machine…
Personal data for thousands of former adult students go missing
Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…
Former Lambeth police officer accused of tipping off criminals is given caution
Guardian reports: A former Lambeth cop accused of leaking information to criminals has been given a police caution. The officer, who was suspected of tipping off criminal suspects about incriminating evidence against them, was cautioned on Tuesday for offences under the Data Protection Act. The then detective constable, who police will not name or reveal…
Bank of Bermuda moves to protect customers after security breach
From the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept, Amanda Dale reports: Several hundred Bank of Bermuda accounts were closed yesterday and cards cancelled as an overseas retailer reported a breach in customer security. Bank spokeswoman Susan Jackson said: “Bank of Bermuda received notification from Visa and MasterCard that an overseas vendor has been compromised and that a number of…