A federal laptop belonging to the Oregon National Guard has been reported stolen from a Guard member’s vehicle, and may contain sensitive personal information concerning military service members. National Guard information technology personnel and Portland Police are investigating the theft. The Guard member was using the computer to conduct work from home. Read more on…
Category: U.S.
Sony customers notified of security breach
Sony Electronics notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office yesterday of a breach involving customer data at a third party service provider, TeleTech. According to the notification (pdf), TeleTech notified Sony that unauthorized copies of certain customers’ credit card information had been made and e-mailed to an account outside of TeleTech’s network. The total number…
National Gypsum employees’ info on missing DVDs
Add National Gypsum to any list you may be keeping of entities who had data on the two unencrypted DVDs that went missing in the February when Towers Watson’s delivery system seemingly lost the DVDs. The company sent a notification (pdf) to its employees and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office at the beginning of…
Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
UK: Credit card fraudster hits 35,000 motorists in petrol station scam
Colin Fernandez reports: A computer wizard branded ‘the most prolific chip and pin fraudster in the UK’ was jailed yesterday for four years. Theogones De Montford, 29, stole the details of at least 35,000 motorists during a £725,000 scam targeting petrol stations. He designed tiny circuit boards which he fitted inside chip and pin machines…
Stolen laptop contained Inovis employee data
As part of a merger, Invois of Alpharetta, Georgia provided GXS with some information on the company. On May 4, a laptop containing Inovis employee data was stolen from a GXS employee. Inovis wasn’t notified of the loss until May 21, however. The firm conducted its own investigation and required GXS to conduct one, too….