From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A financial services company with operations in the UK, USA and Middle East breached the Data Protection Act by losing over 600 customers’ personal details, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. E*Trade Securities Ltd discovered that a large number of customer files were missing in April 2010 when they…
Category: Breach Incidents
OH: Greene Co. website hacked; users warned
Mark Gokavi reports: Greene County residents who have used an email address, user name and password on any Greene County website may want to change that information in other applications because the county’s web server was hacked into Monday night. Greene County Auditor David Graham said the breach at about 9:30 p.m. Monday did not…
Salt Lake City Police Department hacked in “OpPiggyBank” (updated)
A hack of the Salt Lake City Police Department this week has raised concerns after hackers claimed to have acquired information that might jeopardize the identities of confidential informants and operations. On Tuesday, the hackers, known as @CabinCr3w and @ItsKahuna on Twitter, dumped some data on PasteBin and PasteBaythat included 1,073 names, usernames, e-mail addresses,…
TX: Lakeway restaurant customers victimized by cybercrime credit fraud
Matt Olsen reports: Police say hackers stole credit card information from dozens of diners who all ate at a restaurant. While investigators have cleared the restaurant of any wrongdoing, the owner tells KVUE he is taking steps to restore the business that’s been lost due to the fraud. By all appearances it was business as usual…
NY: Mamaroneck Staples Cashier Charged in $181K Fraud
Brian Donnelly reports: A cashier at the Staples in Mamaroneck has been charged with stealing, then selling, 50 customers’ credit card numbers, leading to $181,800 in credit card fraud, according to a Westchester County Police press release. Valerie Fajardo, a 21-year-old from the Bronx, was arrested at the store on 2444 Boston Post Road on…
Irish web firm hit by data breach
Ciara O’Brien reports: Internet hosting company Blacknight is investigating a security breach that could have put client contact details at risk. Although Blacknight is still trying to establish the scale of the breach, it said no financial data had been compromised. The incident may have affected the email addresses of more than 40,000 customers. The situation…