Cindy George reports: Technical issues encountered by the city of Houston’s payroll contractor could have potentially exposed personal information for nearly 5,000 local government workers, including more than 1,000 in the Houston Police Department. Widespread notice about the compromised data emerged on Wednesday when the Houston Police Officers’ Union posted a notice to members on its…
Category: Breach Incidents
Morningstar resets clients’ passwords and notifies them of breach involving Morningstar Document Research
A reader sent this in with a note that a bunch of folks in his office received this email this morning: Dear Morningstar client: I am writing to make you aware that some of your personal information, including your name, address, email address, and password, may have been compromised because of an illegal intrusion into…
CITIC Telecom International Hacked, 2,583 Accounts Leaked
This week @TeamBerserk has announced a few leaks of data with one being CITIC Telecom International (https://www.citictel.com). CITIC Telecom International is one of Hong Kong’s major telecommunications providers which has been in service since 1997. Established in 1997 and publicly listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 1883), CITIC Telecom International…
LinkedIn Seeks Dismissal Of Data-Breach Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports that LinkedIn is second dismissal of Khalilah Wright’s second amended complaint stemming from a breach affecting over 6 million users. LinkedIn says that the consumer, Virginia resident Khalilah Wright, still hasn’t set out sufficient allegations to proceed with their lawsuit, which alleges that the company didn’t use basic encryption techniques to secure…
Tepco employee loses info on 22 claiming nuclear compensation redress
Everywhere you go, documents are left on public transportation by employees, it seems: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday that one of its employees has lost documents that include the personal information of 22 individuals who have applied for compensation related to the triple-meltdown crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, adding that this…
Rothamsted Research Data Leak Insight and Analyst
At the start of June a hacker using the handle Nairb had dumped a leak of information from Rothamsted Research. Back then at the time OpMonsanto was in full swing with global protests around the world which were aimed right at the research company’s like Rothamsted Research conduct. The leak of information was dumped as an compressed…