Anthony J. Machcinski reports: …. Owners of AutoCarry, a car transport business that has an office on 4250 West Side Avenue, reported that burglars broke into the office and stole the records of more than 100 customers Wednesday night, police said. Owners told police that the stolen documents contained credit card numbers, addresses and other…
Category: Breach Incidents
TD Bank: Data loss affects about 260,000 U.S. customers
Jessica Hall continues to update the TD Bank backup tapes breach: In Maine, 34,907 residents were affected, according to a letter sent to the attorney general from TD Bank. In Massachusetts, the Attorney General’s Office said more than 73,000 residents were affected. In Connecticut, 35,000 residents were affected, while Rhode Island had 500 residents and Maryland…
Pepsi Hungary hacked, 50,000+ user credentials leaked
Turkish Agent Hacker Group member Maxney has contacted us with a big leak of data from one of the worlds largest cola company’s Hungary based website. The hack was on Hungary’s Pepsi website (https://3d.pepsi.hu) which appears to be redirecting to a defacement archive stored on zone-h. AS well as the defacement that redirects they have dumped well over…
FEI Company joins the ranks of those who had PII on a stolen laptop
FEI Company has notified employees that a laptop stolen on August 29 contained their personal information. In a letter from their counsel to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the firm indicates that the laptop held employees’ names, Social Security numbers, taxpayer I.D. information, salary information, date of birth, home address, and basic employment information….
Hackers access University of Georgia personnel information
The University of Georgia has issued the following release today: An ongoing investigation into what officials call “a criminal act of computer trespass” reveals that the personnel records of at least 8,500 current and former University of Georgia employees apparently were accessed by an intruder, UGA Vice President for Information Technology Timothy M. Chester announced…
Follow-up: Army slow in contacting data breach victims
Joe Gould reports: The Army has been slow to inform 31 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross, or their families, that the recipients’ Social Security numbers were posted online. More than a week after the breach was made public, eight recipients of the DSC, the military’s second highest award for…