John Nickerson reports that Bianca Torres of Bridgeport has been charged with stealing personal information of students at at the Institute of Allied Medical Professionals. Torres was employed as a receptionist at the institute for six weeks. Police began investigating after one of the victims did her own investigating and tracked some fraudulent charges on her credit…
Category: U.S.
MO: R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. informs clients’ employees of breach
On July 26, 2013, R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. learned of the possibility that the unnamed web hosting facility that hosts its website was the subject of a cyber-attack that occurred on July 22, 2013. Although their investigations are ongoing, on August 7, 2013 the forensic experts hired by the firm confirmed that the attack could result in the…
Some TD Bank customers’ information sent to other customers
Jennifer Gannon reports Some customers of TD Bank had their information sent to other customers because of what the bank called a vendor error. TD Bank said a national firm responsible for printing and mailing statements accidentally sent some customers statements that had other customers’ information on the back. Stephania Pearce was balancing her checkbook…
ICG America notifies customers of its companies of payment system compromise (update 2)
ICG America, which operates a family of retail and e-commerce companies that includes Amazing Clubs, Flying Noodle, MonsterBrew, Games2U, TexasIrons, and California Reds, has joined the ranks of those disclosing hacks involving customer data. In August, ICG America was alerted by a credit card company that their payment processing system appeared to have been attacked….
Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service
Brian Krebs has a must-read investigative piece about how ssndob.ms – an underground marketplace selling oodles of usable personal information (some of which we saw earlier this year on exposed.su) – gained access to major U.S. consumer and business data aggregators to obtain some of the data they were selling. LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, Kroll…
Unique Vintage notifies customers of long-running hack
We are writing to you because of an incident at Unique Vintage. On September 14, 2013 we discovered a data security incident that involved some of your personal information. Unique Vintage is Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (“PCI”) compliant and implements the latest measures reasonably possible to protect its customers’ sensitive information. However, the very sophisticated data breach…