Barrett Brown, the self-proclaimed spokesperson for Anonymous, was indicted in Tuesday in Dallas. The newest charges against Brown relate to the use of stolen credit card and personal information from the Stratfor hack in December 2011, and this case is totally separate from other charges he faces for threatening an FBI agent. The first charge…
Category: Business Sector
FL: Documents containing private data found on Hudson roadside
Garbage bags full of people’s personal information, such as copies of driver’s licenses and social security numbers, dumped on the side of the road. The papers appear to come from Rock Bottom Auto Sales on State Route 52. Read more on TBO.
IE: Investigation into possible data breach at 02
Irish mobile phone carrier O2 may have had a breach involving customer data. Or not. It seems they’re not really sure what was on a missing backup tape. And I’m not sure I understand why they first told this summer that a tape went missing in September 2011. And of course I’m not sure I…
EE: Company Fined for Private Data Leak
Estonian Public Broadcasting reports: The Tallinn database management company Andmevara was fined 3,000 euros by the Data Protection Inspectorate for the potential leak of 126,379 people’s personal data in February. Capital residents who had applied for land tax exemption had their names, ID numbers, living addresses, property sizes and the amount of the tax exception…
Help track the Advanced Data Processing – Intermedix breach
Regular readers know how I hate it when companies are not sufficiently transparent about breaches, – where “sufficiently” is defined by MY standards and not just what the law may require. So when Epsilon didn’t provide a list of affected clients, this blog compiled our own list with the help of readers and affected consumers. And…
I know what GoTickets.com did last summer
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry asking how many breaches GoTickets.com had really experienced. At the time, it appeared that they had had one breach in May 2012, which they reported to California (and, as I recently learned, New Hampshire and Maryland), but there was a puzzling report from American Express that…