Dave Powell reports: Files containing job applicants’ personal details were found dumped in a skip. A shocked member of the public discovered the documents and passed them to the Daily Post. We have chosen not to identify the two women named in the dossiers but the way that the files appear to have been carelessly…
Category: Business Sector
PA: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort reports security breach during summer (update3)
WTAE in Pennsylvania reports that guests who stayed at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort between May and July may have had their credit card numbers, expiration dates, and CSC numbers exfiltrated by a POS compromise. Read the statement from Nemacolin Woodlands Resort on WTAE. One intriguing statement in their release was this: A private firm investigating this…
Police shed light on Japan’s black market for personal info
I just read an interesting news piece related to the previous blog entry on the black market sale of personal information in Japan. It seems that Japan’s personal information protection law which went into effect in 2005 created the market, and one group made almost $11 million using employees of numerous companies to provide the…
JP: Suspects arrested in data leak probe made 100 million yen selling personal info
The Mainichi reports: A group of eight men under arrest for illegally obtaining and leaking personal information raked in nearly 100 million yen by selling information from family registries they had illegally obtained over the past five years, investigative sources said. But the 100 million yen – U.S. $1,282,780.00 – wasn’t their only profits. According…
FL: Server at Chili’s accused of stealing card numbers
An all-too-common insider breach in the hospitality sector: Investigators say a server at a DeLand Chili’s restaurant stole customers’ bank card numbers and went on a shopping spree. They said Niquarus Rawls managed to rack up $24,000 before he was caught. Read more on WDBO.
Aegon sent us details of rival advisers’ investors and its response was highly disappointing
John Taylor of Whitehall Partnership writes: Aegon, the insurance company recently transferred the personal details of around 35 clients to our firm due to an administrative error. This allowed us to see personal information of their customers over the internet and to the ability make changes to their investments. The error came to our attention…