Add Alliance Workplace Solutions to the too-long list of companies who have reported laptops with personal information stolen from an employee’s car. Anderson & Murison report that the names, addresses, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers of propsective insureds were exposed online between June 2014 and July 18th due to the installation of an additional firewall (ironic,…
Category: U.S.
Former Eaton Corp. Employee Indicted For Installing Malware
A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Arturas Samoilovas, age 35, of Stow, Ohio, with one count of transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent…
FL: Nova Southeastern University law students’ data hacked in spring 2013
Through their lawyers, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Texas notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they learned of a data security incident that involved potential access to a server that contained former law students’ personal information, including names, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, NSU identification numbers, and Social Security…
Easter Seals of New Hampshire employees find their direct deposits re-routed after falling for phishing scam
If seven of your employees fell for a phishing scam, I’d say that’s pretty compelling evidence that you need to do more training of your employees, wouldn’t you?
Westlaw discloses breach of public records database
West Publishing Corporation, a unit of Thomson Reuters, has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving their Westlaw subscription-only public records database. In a letter dated November 4th to those affected, Senior Vice President Andy Martens explained that on October 14, they detected unusual search activity. Investigation revealed that some subscribers’…
Yet another Experian breach
Oh, look. Yet another Experian breach. On November 3, Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that Merchants Capital Access‘s login credentials to Experian’s credit-reporting database had been misused by an unknown party. Two New Hampshire residents were notified of the breach that occurred between October 20 and October 21. The total number affected was not…