Criminals who broke into a State Bar of Nevada storage facility stole confidential information on an undisclosed number of applicants for the state bar examination, putting an untold number at risk of identity theft. Those affected were notified by letter dated March 17 and offered free credit monitoring for a year:The notification was submitted to…
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Email gaffe exposes Loyola Law School students’ info to others
ALLGov reports: The Financial Aid Office of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles inadvertently exposed the personal information of what may very well have been the school’s entire 395-member student body to 14 members of its May 2014 graduating class. Read more on AllGov The full text of the notification email was posted online last…
MN: El Agave Mexican Restaurant hacked; over 200 customers report card fraud
Associated Press reports that there have been over 200 reports of card fraud by customers who used payment cards at a Fairmont, Minnesota restaurant, El Agave Mexican Restaurant. Officials believe a point-of-sale hack took place at the restaurant. Yesterday, El Agave posted this on their Facebook page: HELLO!! we wanna thank everyone for the support we’re…
How big was the Sally Beauty breach?
Although Sally Beauty acknowledges that 25,000 payment cards may have been compromised in a recently disclosed breach, Brian Krebs challenges their statement by analyzing the zip codes of card data up for sale on an underground market, rescator.so. You can read his analysis here, but the short version is that Brian speculates that all Sally Beauty…
More TD Bank insider breaches
On March 1, I blogged about numerous insider breaches TD Bank has reported in the past few years. I updated that report on March 9 with even more breaches that I uncovered via public records that were subsequently made available. Today, I received a response to a public records request to the North Carolina Attorney…
Sorenson Communications notifying employees after breach at payroll vendor’s
I’ve recently seen a number of reported breaches involving unnamed payroll vendor(s). I wish notification letters would name the breached vendor(s) so we’d know if it’s the same vendor or if a bunch of payroll vendors have recently been successfully attacked. Today’s report is from Sorenson Communications, who notified U.S. Sorenson Communications and CaptionCall@ employees that…