Since April 2011, this blog has covered the continuing – and concerning – saga of Weather Shield employees who became victims of ID theft and who continue to have problems filing their tax returns, year after year. And now it’s happening again. I thought the IRS was supposedly getting its act together on helping victims of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Lawsuits over Nationwide Insurance data breach dismissed by court
Back in November 2012, Nationwide Mutual Insurance disclosed an attack on their network that compromised customers’ personal information. The breach turned out to be pretty large, with over 1 million affected. Two potential class action lawsuits were filed following the breach, including Galaria v. Nationwide and Hancox v. Nationwide. The Hancox case was transferred to…
Target’s “Second-Rate” Fix for Hacking Victims May Leave Customers Vulnerable
Dana Liebelson discusses a concern that has been raised here and elsewhere – that Target negotiated a credit-monitoring deal with Experian that only includes Experian’s own database and not the Equifax and TransUnion databases as well. Read her report on Mother Jones.
Wide Area and Sensing Conference Hacked, Database Leaked for #OpbigBrother
Today an Anonymous hacker posted a leak of data to zerobin that comes from the Wide Area (https://wasc.rmtech.org/) and Sensing Conference held by Rocky Mountain Technology Alliance (https://rmtech.org/). The Conference which use to go by the name of High Altitude and Near Space Conference was recently change to the Wide Area and Sensing Conference but it appears some where along the…
Freeman Company notifying employees after W-2 mail mix-up
Yes, it’s that time of the year again, and this week’s tax records mailing error report concerns Freeman Company in Texas. Freeman uses ADP to prepare their W-2’s, and ADP, in turn, contracts with a mailing firm. In this case, the unnamed mailing vendor had a glitch with their technology that resulted in incorrect barcodes…
South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel notifying guests of card breach (update2)
If you stayed at the San Francisco Airport- South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel in 2013, check your mail for a breach notification letter. It seems the hotel recently discovered that two computers at their front desk were compromised by skimmers during 2013 and guests’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV2 codes were captured….