Executive Accounting Services, Inc. is a Raleigh, North Carolina firm that provides payroll and tax preparation services to clients. As such, it maintains information on the clients’ employees, including names, postal and email addresses, checking and savings account numbers, telephone or cell numbers, and Social Security numbers. On September 17, EAS was notified by some…
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Ouidad notifies customers after customer data viewed or obtained
Hair care product manufacturer and e-tailer Ouidad is notifying customers that they were recently alerted to a compromise of their customer database that occurred between June 30 and July 4. In a letter to those affected, they write: It appears the attackers obtained or viewed information about one or more transactions you completed at Ouidad.com…
CO: Pueblo Community College student privacy breach revealed
Student records from Pueblo Community College, including Social Security numbers, were found by a Pueblo woman in a box of office supplies purchased at a South Side yard sale last summer in Pueblo. Read more on Pueblo Chieftain (sub. req. for full access).
U. of Arizona law school notifying over 9,000 former students and applicants whose SSN may have been accessed by hacker
You won’t find it on their home page, but if you dig into the U. of Arizona‘s web site, you’ll find this notice, posted today: Personal information of certain former law students and applicants to the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law may have been exposed after being stored on a server…
Breach at PR Newswire Tied to Adobe Hack
Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this year, hackers broke into the networks of marketing and press release distribution service PR Newswire, making off with usernames and encrypted passwords that customers use to access the company’s service and upload news releases, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The stolen data was found on the same Internet servers that housed huge troves of…
Man charged in TSYS identity theft violated computer policy at Paragon Benefits
“If you see something, say something” paid off in this case. Adam Carlson reports: A week after he was placed at Paragon Benefits Inc. by a temporary staffing agency, Drew Johnson appeared to be spending more time on his computer than his duties required before personal information from more than 5,200 TSYS employees was sent…