When I saw “US Airways” appear on California’s public breach report site, I thought it was going to be the ADP-related breach I reported last week. But no, it seems that US Airways had another breach, this one discovered on July 12. In an undated letter with a file creation date of August 2, Fernand…
Category: Breach Incidents
E-mail gaffe exposed Ruby Tuesday employee financial data to a former employee
An e-mail gaffe by a Support Center employee Ruby Tuesday exposed current employees’ information to a former employee. The spreadsheet, inadvertently attached to the July 8 e-mail, contained employees’ names, Social Security numbers, bank name, bank account type, bank account numbers and routing numbers. Ruby Tuesday immediately tried to recall the e-mail, and contacted the recipient…
Huntington’s Disease Society of America notifies employees and donors of possible compromise of their information
On May 3, an intruder compromised the web mail account of an HDSA executive. The purpose was likely to facilitate a fraudulent wire transfer from HDSA’s bank account, as the transfer could only occur if an email sent to the executive’s account was approved. The attempt failed, as the executive discovered the compromise on May…
Security breach at Opscode as attackers download databases
Iain Thomson reports: Opscode, the commercial side of the open source Chef configuration management tool beloved by Google, Facebook, and IBM, has warned customers that a flaw in an unnamed third-party application has left its wiki and ticketing system pwned. “The attacker gained escalated privileges and downloaded the user database for the wiki and ticketing…
Bridgewater Associates notifies former employees that their information was accessed by unknown individual
Bridgewater Associates, LP offers employees continuing health coverage (COBRA) when they separate from the firm. That coverage is administered by Ceridian, who maintain a database with the employees’ and their dependents’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and other benefit plan information (but no medical information). On or about April 11, a Bridgewater…
Australian Security Firm SIG Hacked, Data Leaked by Anonymous
Today an Anonymous hacker who uses the handle @G3NTbl4ck has announced a leak of data from an Australia based Security Firm named SIG. SIG which is short for Security Intelligence Group has its head office based in Western Australia and provides services like risk management to corporations around the world. The hacker announced the breach…