Vallejo-based Petrochem is notifying employees that a laptop with their personal information was stolen from a fellow employee’s car on July 18: On the evening of July 18, 2013, an unknown person broke into the locked car of a Petrochem employee and took a laptop computer, various documents and other items. Stored on the stolen laptop…
Category: Breach Incidents
Identity theft fears as a faulty laptop is resold on eBay
Another reminder of how much personal info winds up for sale on eBay – in this case, a defective laptop returned to the merchant who returned it to the manufacturer… A London film maker has found that a faulty Acer laptop he returned to Sainsbury’s was sold via eBay to an American buyer – who…
ICG America notifies customers of its companies of payment system compromise (update 2)
ICG America, which operates a family of retail and e-commerce companies that includes Amazing Clubs, Flying Noodle, MonsterBrew, Games2U, TexasIrons, and California Reds, has joined the ranks of those disclosing hacks involving customer data. In August, ICG America was alerted by a credit card company that their payment processing system appeared to have been attacked….
Equity Trust Company hacked from overseas IP addresses
A breach involving Equity Trust Company in South Dakota also flew under the media radar this year, it seems. In a letter dated April 16 to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, Michael Dea, President of the Ohio-headquartered firm, writes that at the end of January, they discovered that part of their network had been accessed…
ADP coding error also impacted AlliedBarton Security Services, too
I’m still uncovering details of the ADP coding error breach that impacted employees of the City of Houston, US Airways, and McKesson. Now we can add AlliedBarton Security Services to the list of affected clients. And Lennox International. Interestingly, these newly posted reports indicate that 206 of ADP’s clients were affected by this breach. In…
Oh, those hidden fields in Excel spreadsheets: Columbia University Medical Center notifies students of breach
It seems that Columbia University Medical Center inadvertently exposed the Social Security numbers of 138 medical students from the graduating class of 2013 in an Excel spreadsheet sent to faculty, students, and staff. CUMC became aware of the breach on March 15. The breach occurred because the Excel spreadsheet with residency match lists for the graduating…