John Ramsey reports: Lumberton police say they are investigating allegations that the director of a battered women’s shelter stole the identities of six employees before she was fired Monday. Christine Fuller was hired in July as executive director of the Southeastern Family Violence Center. Center board member Ken Windley said Fuller falsified her credentials to…
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Wells Fargo responds to breach report involving mail collation error
Wells Fargo sent DataBreaches.net the following statement about the breach reported in mainstream media earlier today: Some of our customers with accounts established in South Carolina and Florida may have received in error pages from other customer accounts in their September paper statements. (Note: Online accounts were unaffected by this error.) The error occurred due…
College of the Holy Cross employees fall for phishing attempt, 493 notified of compromised personal information
No matter how many times entities warn employees about phishing attempts, it seems that some inevitably fall for them anyway. College of the Holy Cross recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that 7 of their employees had fallen for phishing attempts that originated in Nigeria and Ghana. As a result of the phishing,…
Laptop stolen from PSEG employee’s home contained employee data
A laptop stolen during a burglary of a PSEG employee’s home on September 25 contained employees’ names and Social Security numbers. According to a letter sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on October 7, the New Jersey electricity and gas company intended to notify affected employees on or about October 10. The letter…
AdvancePierre Foods sends unencrypted employee 401k data on flash drive that gets lost in the mail
Through their attorneys, AdvancePierre Foods recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a flash drive containing unencrypted personal information of its employees had been lost in the U.S. mail. The October 6 letter indicated that on September 8, the firm had sent the flash drive to its 401k provider, Milliman. The envelope arrived on…
FL: Wells Fargo Customers Got Someone Else’s Financial Information (update 2)
Mike Lyons reports that a mailing error by Wells Fargo in Florida exposed customers’ bank account information to each other. Social Security numbers were not involved, but bank account numbers, balances, and transactions were. Ugh. Update: This may be a regional or national problem, as other parts of the country are also reporting complaints from…