Dave Jordan reports: A number of customers who used their credit and debit card information at one store in the east may want to check their statements after an apparent breach in the system sent credit card information to an unknown location. One of those alleged victims–Kate Ford–says she used her debit card to buy…
Category: U.S.
Hackers didn’t retrieve data in Defense pharmacy website attack
Bob Brewin follows up a government site that appeared on a hacker’s list of compromised sites for sale: No data has been siphoned off the Defense Department PharmacoEconomic Center website and domain as the result of a hacker attack reported by a security firm last week, a Military Health System spokesman said. Austin Camacho, a spokesman…
Hacker may have sold access to Marshall U. website
Yesterday, I noted that I had contacted Marshall University about a hacker offering “Full SiteAdmin Control” to their server for $99.00. My purpose in contacting them was two-fold: to alert them to a possible breach that they needed to look into and to ask for a comment or response. I never got to the second…
Warner Pacific College laptop stolen from employee’s home
Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon describes itself as a “close-knit, Christ-centered campus with amazing staff and faculty, an affordable tuition less than $17,000, and a culture of authentic Christian service to the city – and the world.” While that may sound admirable, apparently it meant nothing to a burglar who stole one of…
Universal Technical Institute notifies 98 applicants of security breach
Universal Technical Institute recently notified 98 applicants that their names and Social Security Numbers were on a laptop stolen from UTI’s Phoenix office on November 18. In some cases, applicants’ contact details and dates of birth were also included in the file. By letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated January 131, UTI…
Was a package of W-2’s shipped by Ceridian via FedEx tampered with? Ember Corp. prudently decides not to take chances.
Boston-based Ember Corporation is notifying 50 current and former employees of a possible breach after a package shipped by its payroll provider, Ceridian, via FedEx appeared to have been tampered with during shipment. In a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Ember’s counsel indicated that the package arrived on January 10 but two…