AlertBoot reports on a case for which I find no English-language media coverage, so I’m quoting their summary of the breach: Matchmakers in Korea require a lot of information to find out if people are compatible, as must be the case for matchmakers around the globe. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Financial Tracking Technologies denies any breach involving SEC staff brokerage data
Because reputation is important and because I covered accusations by the SEC that their contractor, Financial Tracking Technologies, LLC, improperly disclosed staff personal stock account data to a subcontractor or subcontractors, it seems only right to publish FTT’s response denying the allegations: With respect to the notice that the SEC provided to employees, Financial Tracking…
Wells Fargo responds to breach report involving mail collation error
Wells Fargo sent DataBreaches.net the following statement about the breach reported in mainstream media earlier today: Some of our customers with accounts established in South Carolina and Florida may have received in error pages from other customer accounts in their September paper statements. (Note: Online accounts were unaffected by this error.) The error occurred due…
Gameloft confirms that Order & Chaos Online accounts on Facebook and mobile devices have been hacked
Will Wilson reports: Gameloft has admitted to Pocket Gamer that a number of Order & Chaos Online players have had their accounts hacked, and that the company is looking into the cause for the security breaches in its MMORPG. The exact number of victims is unknown at this time, although the official forums for the…
College of the Holy Cross employees fall for phishing attempt, 493 notified of compromised personal information
No matter how many times entities warn employees about phishing attempts, it seems that some inevitably fall for them anyway. College of the Holy Cross recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that 7 of their employees had fallen for phishing attempts that originated in Nigeria and Ghana. As a result of the phishing,…
Laptop stolen from PSEG employee’s home contained employee data
A laptop stolen during a burglary of a PSEG employee’s home on September 25 contained employees’ names and Social Security numbers. According to a letter sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on October 7, the New Jersey electricity and gas company intended to notify affected employees on or about October 10. The letter…