So apparently it’s not enough that I read and think about gadzillions of breach notification letters. I’m supposed to actually report on them, too, huh? It seems I was so underwhelmed by an AT&T Mobility breach that I never reported on it here, even though mainstream media found it really newsworthy, with some even going so…
Category: Breach Incidents
College of the Desert notifies employees of e-mail breach
College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California recently notified employees that an employee sent an e-mail with an attached spreadsheet with employee information to 78 college employees. The spreadsheet contained employees’ name, Social Security number, date of birth, gender, zip code, job title, employee identification number, health insurance benefit plan selection, health insurance subscriber identification…
PayTime Data Breach Hits Some Workers Hard
When we think about consequences of hacks or breaches, let’s not lose sight that people may lose their jobs simply because their data was caught up in an incident – even if there was no evidence that their information was misused. idRADAR.com has a good example of that in the aftermath of the PayTime hack….
Rowan Companies notifies employees, vendors, and contractors of system intrusion
Rowan Companies in Houston, Texas reports that on May 13, they detected an intrusion into their system that contained employee and non-employee vendor and contractor personal information. According to their notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, they also received some reports of misuse of personal credit card, PayPal accounts, and bank account information. Although…
Liquidnet settles with the SEC over dark pool data breaches
New York-based brokerage firm Liquidnet has agreed to pay a $2m settlement fee to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over shortcomings in how the dark-pool owner guarded private data about firms using its platform. The investigations, which date back to 2011, found that the firm improperly allowed its Equity Capital Markets (ECM) desk, a…
Former restaurant employee charged with stealing customer info
Hospitality sector continues to pose a huge risk to the security of our payment card info, and insiders are often involved: A former restaurant employee is accused of stealing customers’ credit card information then using it to pay her own bills. Authorities charged Jolene Weisheit with fraud. Investigators say she used to work at the…