Blue Shield of California is notifying some agents that their Tax Identification Numbers – which are often the agents’ Social Security Numbers – were accidentally disclosed to some of the agents’ clients who attempted to pay their bills online. In a letter dated today, BSC writes that the problem with SSN exposure existed between December…
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C’mon, FTC, when will you do something? (update 2)
It has now been about two years since I filed a complaint with the FTC to alert them to all the data security breaches involving Experian’s credit report database. And while I continue to wait to see the FTC take action against Experian over their numerous breaches involving misuse of clients’ login credentials, Experian…
Zevin Asset Management notifies clients after employee who violated company policy inadvertently exposed personal and financial information
Boston-based Zevin Asset Management recently notified some clients of a breach that began in mid-September 2013. According to a letter dated February 13 signed by their President, Benjamin Lovell: In mid-September 2013, contrary to Zevin policies, a Zevin employee used an online services provider to host a document listing Zevin’s usernames and passwords for certain…
Hackers Show They’ve Stolen 828 Gb of Data from Systems of Las Vegas Sands
Eduard Kovacs reports: The hackers that (sic) breached and defaced the websites of several casinos owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp last week have published a video to demonstrate that they’ve stolen 828 Gb of files from the company’s systems. The data apparently stolen by the hacktivsts hasn’t been published online. They’ve only made the…
Wachovia customer sues bank for failing to protect his account and then falsely fingering him to the feds
Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald has a must-read piece about what Carlos Gomez, a Wachovia Bank customer, went through after becoming a victim of ID theft by a bank employee, and how he’s suing Wachovia, which has since been taken over by Wells Fargo: Just before dawn, insistent pounding on the front door jolted…
Second member of #Anonymous sentenced in Angel Soft DDoS prosecution
Paul Srubas reports: A second man implicated in an Internet attack on Angel Soft bathroom tissue’s website three years ago was sentenced recently in federal court in Green Bay. Jacob Wilkens, 24, of Postville, Iowa, must spend two years on probation and pay $110,933 in restitution, Magistrate Judge James Sickel ordered last week. Christopher Sudlik,…