Iowa-based The Vernon Company recently discovered that its system had been accessed via its vernoncompany.com web site. The breach was discovered on October 6, and the company shut down the web site until it could patch the vulnerabilities were patched. Further investigation suggested that the breach originated in Singapore, and may have occurred as early…
Category: Breach Types
Losses from EFTPOS frauds at Perth shops hit $450,000
McDonald’s Australia is alerting customers to a huge skimming operation in Perth. As of yesterday, they had reported that about 2500 accounts had been compromised to the tune of $450,000 but today they say that they cannot guarantee that more West Australians will not be fleeced in the fraud scam. While police have so far…
MD bank dumps identities into trash
It’s a local bank you trust with your money and your personal information. But the M&T branch in Rodgers Forge didn’t shelter all of some peoples’ secrets. As ABC2 News Investigator Joce Sterman discovered, some of the documents that contain them didn’t get shredded, they got dumped. […] What the bank did was dump the…
City admits lapse in data release
Sewell Chan reports: On Tuesday, New York City rolled out the next phase of its NYC BigApps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones. But in what appears to have been an accidental data breach,…
NY: E-mail error sends out students’ Social Security numbers
Rick Brand reports: Suffolk Community College has agreed to pay a company for the next year to monitor the credit of 300 students whose last names and Social Security numbers were mistakenly listed in an attachment to an e-mail sent to those students last month. Mary Lou Araneo, college vice president, said Sunday there is…
Hacker hits UNC-Chapel Hill study data
From McClatchy Newspapers: A hacker has infiltrated a computer server housing the personal data of 236,000 women enrolled in a UNC-Chapel Hill research study. Among the information exposed: the Social Security numbers of 163,000 study participants. Though the intrusion was detected in late July, computer forensics experts say it may have happened two years ago,…