High-end jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. reports an incident involving unauthorized access to JPMorgan Chase Bank’s servers. The compromised servers contained information on a Tiffany employee travel expense reimbursement system, and held the employees’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and banking account information. In its letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on September…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ah, less-than-sweet mysteries of life: when you can’t figure out if or how you were breached
How frustrating for everyone: St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore learned that 40 of its physicians had become victims of ID theft. Hapless victims had their names and Social Security numbers used to create wireless telephone accounts that they knew nothing about until they started receiving overdue notices from creditors. But despite its best efforts to…
UK: Suffolk: Police officers resign after allegations of data protection breaches
Matt Gaw reports: Two police officers have resigned and another two staff members sacked after allegations of data protection breaches at Suffolk Constabulary, it can be revealed. Force bosses said the unlawful use of personal or police information “would not be tolerated” after figures obtained by the East Anglian Daily Times showed 66 suspected cases…
ASUS Italy Hacked, site defaced, Thousands of client details leaked
A hacker who goes by the handle of Maxney and is apart of Turkish Ajan Hacker Group has contacted us with information and data from an Italian based Asus website. The site was hacked and left defaced, thousands of accounts have been leaked as well as its complete database. This is not the first time Maxney has targeted big corporations,m…
Aegon sent us details of rival advisers’ investors and its response was highly disappointing
John Taylor of Whitehall Partnership writes: Aegon, the insurance company recently transferred the personal details of around 35 clients to our firm due to an administrative error. This allowed us to see personal information of their customers over the internet and to the ability make changes to their investments. The error came to our attention…
IA: Officials confirm credit and debit cards used at Pzazz casino compromised last year
Andy Hoffman reports: Officials at the Pzazz entertainment complex in Burlington have confirmed “computer hackers” breached security at their facility last year, resulting in dozens of credit card numbers being stolen. Rob Higgins, general manager of the complex, recently sent letters to several American Express cardholders who were victimized last year by high-tech thieves who…