Parcel service UPS has encrypted all its UK laptops and smartphones, following a breach of the Data Protection Act last year. The firm has also signed an undertaking to assure the Information Commissioner’s Office that personal information will be kept securely in future. An unencrypted, password-protected laptop was stolen from a UPS employees while on…
Category: Breach Incidents
Heartland CEO on Data Breach: QSAs Let Us Down
For Heartland Payment Systems Inc. CEO Robert Carr, the year did not start off well, to say the least. In January, the Princeton, N.J.-based provider of credit and debit processing, payment and check management services was forced to acknowledge it had been the target of a data breach — in hindsight, possibly the largest to…
Hackers strike UC Berkeley again
Hackers have struck again at UC Berkeley computers, this time at the Graduate School of Journalism, the university announced Tuesday. In a statement from the university’s Department of Public Affairs, the school said a hacker may have gained access to “Social Security numbers and/or dates of birth” of 493 applicants to the journalism school between…
Spam uncovers career center security breach
A spam e-mail uncovered a potentially dangerous security breach. The potential problem centers around a Nashville organization that helps people get jobs and improve their career. One hundred and sixty people are now in the process of being notified over concerns that their names and Social Security numbers were exposed on the Internet. It turns…
Chinese hackers detained
Police in northeastern China’s border prefecture Yanbian said Friday they have detained two hackers who stole 450 million won (about 362,000 U.S. dollars) from online accounts at the Republic of Korea banks. The case involved the largest amount of money of its kind in China, said the public security bureau at a press conference in…
Whistleblower lawsuit against Kaiser (updated)
At a time when concerns about the privacy and security of electronic health records are a hot topic and the issue of private vs. public health insurance is making the front pages, a lawsuit filed by a former Kaiser employee alleges that Kaiser knowingly and repeatedly violated HIPAA, exposed millions of members to identity theft,…