Adam Brandolph reports that a breach involving University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) employees is bigger than initially reported: As many as 322 UPMC employees — 300 more than initially reported — have been affected by a data breach and identity theft scheme, the hospital system said on Thursday. Authorities said the breach allowed someone…
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PA: Point Park University notifies employees of possible data breach
Justine Coyne reports employees at a Pittsburgh university are being notified after a package containing payroll reports from the university’s payroll vendor, Ceridian, arrived with the reports missing from the package: Point Park University on Wednesday alerted employees to a potential data breach involving names, home addresses, Social Security numbers and other information. The potential…
Assisted Living Concepts notifying over 43,000 employees after hack of payroll database at vendor’s (update3)
Chicago-based Assisted Living Concepts, LLC and its subsidiaries own and/or operate 200 assisted living facilities in 20 states. ALC uses an external vendor to process its payroll for its employees. On February 14, the vendor notified ALC that they had detected unauthorized access to ALC’s payroll database. Investigation revealed that ALC’s login credentials had been…
Thermo Fisher Scientific notifies employees after laptop with their SSN is stolen
Thermo Fisher Scientific is notifying 93 employees that their unencrypted names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee in Boston on December 23. The firm learned of the breach on January 4. Those affected are being offered a year of free credit monitoring with EquiFax’s Credit Watch Gold service. You…
Former Capital One teller sentenced for stealing customer information
Associated Press reports: A bank teller who conspired to use customers’ information to order fraudulent checks and steal money their accounts has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. Twenty-four-year-old Jayad Zainab Ester Conteh of Glenarden was also ordered to pay more than $36,000 in restitution at sentencing Tuesday in federal court in…
Costs continue to mount in MCCCD breach
While I continue to wade through materials sent to this site concerning the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) breach, Mary Beth Faller has an update on the costs of the breach: The cost to deal with the breach in the computer system at the Maricopa County Community College District could total $17.1 million, with most…