The breach at payroll processor BenefitMall (formerly Compupay) that affected Kenerson Associates also affected the Tribeca Film Institute, according to this notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office and to affected employees. If anyone sees other notifications from other affected clients, please let me know and I’ll add them here.
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Morrisons supermarket suffers major payroll data breach (Updated)
John E. Dunn reports: British supermarket Morrisons has reportedly suffered a major data breach which saw the pay-roll data of an unknown number of its 100,000 staff stolen and published on a website. In an email sent to staff and later seen by TV media, the attack was said to have involved the theft of…
EC-Council notifies members of recent breach
John Leyden of The Register reports that the EC-Council sent out a notification to its members about the February breach noted previously on this blog. Here’s the full text of their message: On Saturday, February 22nd, 2014, the ICANN-accredited domain registrar of EC-Council was compromised and as a result, EC-Council suffered a DNS Poisoning attack,…
Russian Intel and Spy Company SearchInform Hacked, Client Apps & Access Leaked By @Rucyborg
Today Russian hacktivist @Rucyborg has announced a leak of data from Searchinform and sent a message out to its director. The leak was announced a couple of hours ago via twitter and posted to cyberguerrilla.org with a message which states that the hackers have had access to searchinform.ru since as far back as 2012 and that…
Victim of 2012 hack, British Pregnancy Advice Service fined for violating the Data Protection Act (Updated)
Some breaches are potentially much more harmful than others. A March 2012 hack involving the British Pregnancy Advice Service (BPAS) fell into that group, and I was so concerned about the breach and the threatened data dump that on Twitter, I publicly called out members of Anonymous for sitting back and not speaking up to try to dissuade…
PA: Johnstown Man Pleads Guilty In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme
PITTSBURGH – A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. John M. Chapman, 33, pleaded guilty to 26 counts before David S. Cercone, United States District Judge. According to the information presented to the court, between 2007…