Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
Category: Breach Incidents
UAE: Employee arrested for credit card fraud
Matovu Abdallah Twaha reports: An Arab man working for a major electronic company in Dubai was arrested for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to buy expensive products from the same company. Director of Electronic Investigations at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maj. Saeed Al Hajiri said they were informed in July about…
2300 email accounts from unknown source
Just another huge dump of accounts from pastebin, dumping ground for leakers and hackers. This dump of emails comes from a unknown source and website, all email passwords are encrypted. https://pastebin.com/V2ZAL94Q
Yet another printing error: Berkshire Bank
Ah. Another printing gaffe. Berkshire Bank, which advertises itself as “America’s Most Exciting Bank,” had a bit more excitement than they hoped for, it seems. On June 24, the bank notified some customers that due to an error, their loan account numbers were printed on the outside of the envelope above their name and address….
Allstate Financial notifies clients that their personal information was on lost laptop
On July 25, Allstate Financial sent out letters to some clients, informing them that their personal information was on a laptop that was lost by a Connecticut-based personal financial representative on May 23. According to the letter, a copy of which was uploaded to Vermont’s Attorney General’s web site, the missing laptop was not reported…
Lincoln Financial Group notifies 91,763 enrollees that programming error may have exposed their Social Security Numbers
For the second time in as many months, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. By letter dated August 15, the company’s attorneys reported that due to a programming error that existed in the database’s search…