Bill Ray reports: Updated Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn’t care. The details include customer and contract prices, copies of sales orders and spreadsheets showing how things are going at the subsidiary which TalkTalk…
Category: Business Sector
Computer security breach at Serco affects 123,000 Thrift Savings Plan participants
Hazel Bradford reports: A cyber attack on a computer of a contractor for the $313 billion Thrift Savings Plan, Washington, could have compromised account information for about 123,000 plan participants, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which oversees the plan, announced Friday. […] The attack was made on a computer at Serco Inc., a contractor…
SK Communications to appeal data breach ruling awarding damages to consumer
Kim Yoo-chul reports: SK Communications, operator of the immensely-popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social network website, is challenging a damage compensation awarded to one of its customers who sued the company over its lax protection of private data. She is among many users of Cyworld and Nate (www.nate.com) , another SK Communications service, who have pursued legal…
China continues to root out traders in stolen personal info
BBC reports that Beijing authorities have arrested 160 on charges of stealing personal information and have shut down 13 sites allegedly involved in trading stolen personal information. This is in addition to the 1,700 arrested last month. Read more on BBC.
CORRECTED: GCI warns some customers about potential misuse of account info
Another insider breach: GCI is sending letters to about 400 customers and urging them to check their accounts for any unusual activity. The letters follow the discovery that a former customer telephone service representative may have misused customer-supplied credit card or bank account payment information. Read more on Anchorage Daily News Correction: In an earlier…
UK: Contract catering firm signs undertaking to improve data protection
Without fanfare, the ICO has published an undertaking signed by Holroyd Howe Independent Ltd in Reading. The gist of the breach is that in response to a request for a copy of an ex-employee’s payslip (requested by the ex-employee), the data processor mailed a document disclosing the relevant month’s payslips for all of the contract catering firm’s…