No, it’s not one of the monster breaches that Brian Krebs reports on, but the kind of smaller breach I’ve been tabulating wherein Experian fails to adequately protect consumer credit reports from someone stealing or misusing a client’s login. In its most recent disclosure, dated November 8, Experian reported that individuals’ credit reports were accessed…
Category: Business Sector
Clarity Media Group notifies current and former employees that stolen laptop held unencrypted PII
Clarity Media Group is notifying some current and former employees and employees of subsidiaries or Freedom Communications (the previous owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette) that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and 401(k) balance may have been on a laptop stolen from a subsidiary’s employee. You can read their notification here (pdf)
Five other firms impacted by the Loyaltybuild breach
Conor Pope reports: Customers of a further eight companies including Clerys, Centra, Postbank and Pigsback have had their personal information stolen in the data breach at Co Clare-based company Loyaltybuild. Credit card information of customers of Clerys’ loyalty travel scheme as well as personal details including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now know (sic) to have been stolen…
Drip drip dripping it out …. Loyaltybuild
Expect more clients of Loyaltybuild to be named tomorrow as victims of the firm’s data breach. It appears that Loyaltybuild just discovered last night that even more companies were affected and needed to notify them first before releasing the information publicly.
MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out
Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…
NY: Buffet employee pleads guilty to identity theft
While the big cybercriminal gangs make headlines, it’s often the little local schemes that will cause you misery. WNYT reports: An employee of the Golden Town Buffet in Bethlehem has pleaded guilty to stealing the credit card information of some of his customers. Heng Li, 27, entered the plea in Albany County Court on Wednesday…